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Iris DeMent

"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."

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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."

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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

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Amber Hurdle

"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."

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"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

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Amber Hurdle

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

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"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

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"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

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Amber Hurdle

"Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy."

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"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

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"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."

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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
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"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
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"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
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"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
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"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
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"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."
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"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
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