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"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks."
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"The world system is employment."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure."

"I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure."

"I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that."

"I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time."

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

"I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent."

"It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well."

"I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives."
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