"The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about."

-- Christopher Lasch

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“Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.”
“I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: â€œI know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. But I need you to understand that I will always choose Creativity over you.”
“I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.”
“I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.”
“Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.”
“[People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets them down, and they begin rereading scripture and find ways that vouch for a nonliteralist reading of the Koran.”
“I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.”

Source : "Reanimator". Interviewed with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.
“I've been told I have the biggest ego in the world and that it manifests itself when you come to me and say, 'I don't like this' or 'I want a change'... and that I relish that because my ego's so big I think I can solve whatever you throw at me and make it even better. I enjoy the interaction and the challenge.”

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