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John Mellencamp

"Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth."

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"Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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Amber Hurdle

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

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"Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time."

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Amber Hurdle

"I believe I was ahead of my time."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

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"If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to."
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"I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace."
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"What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other."
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"Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album."
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"I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs."
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"My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material."
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"I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off."
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