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I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this was a very unusual period in music history. So I went on assuming that one day I'm going to have my band like my heroes had their own band. So people ask me this question all the time - they go, "Bass is basically a background instrument." The other thing is that in urban music, Black music, the bass has a much higher profile.
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Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.
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Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.
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We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
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For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.
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It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.
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Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.
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Ooh, the silent treatment.
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I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.
