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Benmont Tench

"We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do."

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"We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do."

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

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"Nothing can come of nothing."

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"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."

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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

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"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

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"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."

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