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"After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid."
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"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side."
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"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
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"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."
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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
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"But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed."
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"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
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"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."
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"Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs."
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"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."
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"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."
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"I was always jealous of something getting more attention."
Attention
"An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity."
Identity
"Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception."
Love
"I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff."
Time
"If you do things out of time you're weird."
Time
"You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy."
Time
"Production is something I've never come to terms with."
Production
"The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was."
Years
"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."
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