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"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."

"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."

"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."

"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free."

"That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again."

"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."
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"Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better."

"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."

"It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out."

"I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said."

"When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away."

"With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that."

"It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places."
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