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“I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.”
Source : "Dean Ween of Ween". Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. October 31, 2007.
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“The feeling of being an Iraqi unites all ethnic groups within this country. Even the Kurds, who have traditionally pushed for their own state, see the benefits of the current situation. They enjoy an autonomous status in Kurdistan, while at the same time participating in decisions in Baghdad. But if neighboring states were to push for a partition of Iraq, it would be a horrible mistake.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“Games have no other purpose than to please.”
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“I look at it as a challenge, ... I'm not going to put too much added pressure on myself. I want to play in the NHL, and after that [happens], I can worry about things beyond that.”
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“The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling that they need to make everything in the cityscape look nice and pretty as quickly as possible. That was particularly apparent in the former East Germany after reunification. Then cities sometimes get a bit too neat and tidy.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.”
Source : "Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.
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“There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”
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“All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.”