"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."
-David Byrne
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"There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.“
-David Byrne
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"It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?"
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"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."
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"Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style."
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"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."
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"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food."
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"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
-Roald Dahl
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"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
-Kurt Vonnegut
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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