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The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias
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It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.
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Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.
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A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.
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I walked away from everybody I knew. I locked myself in a loft that I rented, like I told you, where I was rolling quarters for cigarettes. I was having to borrow money off of the rent guy... the real estate agent that was renting me the loft.
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Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
