"That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Ron Mael

“People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.”

Source : Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage
“You canâ€™t be a non-conformist if you donâ€™t wear the proper uniform.”
“The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.”
“Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.”
“Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.”
“Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.”

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