"We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all."

-- Annie Dillard

“When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.”

Source : "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.
“When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.”
“Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.”
“I knew that governments suppressed antigravity, UFO-related technologies, free energy or what they call zero-point energy. This should not be kept hidden from the public when pensioners cant pay their fuel bills,”

Source : "'Ufo Hacker' Tells What He Found". The Wired Magazine Interview, www.wired.com. June 21, 2006.
“You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.”
“I'm pretty good with languages.”
“I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.”
“I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried.”

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