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"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."
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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."

"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."

"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

"Experience everything but cling to what is right."

"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."

"Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details."

"Many people experience Gethsemane moments."
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"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing."

"I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in."

"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."

"I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers."
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