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"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"

"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring."

"Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin."

"I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed."

"There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that."

"And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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