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Michael Stipe

"When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."

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Amber Hurdle

"Earned money brings you security, borrowed money gets you slavery."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it."

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"On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing."
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"When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year."
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"My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him."
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"There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell."
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"But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt."
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"So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day."
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Michael Stipe
"Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music."
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"Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever."
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"I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed."
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"We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."
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