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		The Partnership for a Drug Free America? Please, make me laugh and gag at the same time with that title. They're a lobbying arm for the liquor and prescription drug industries. They don't want a drug-free America, they want an America free of the drugs that are their competition. Prozac doesn't want to go up against marijuana, it will lose.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		We want to encourage people to talk to one another. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Kramer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edan Lepucki 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rabindranath Tagore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Thompson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Cadigan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Down time is not the name of the game. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Usher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tammy Duckworth 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Keane