"Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too."
-Dave Matthews
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"We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.“
-Dave Matthews
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"Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too."
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"I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words."
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"I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means."
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"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell."
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"I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make."
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"When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch."
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"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."
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"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
-George J. Mitchell
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
-Eric Burdon
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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