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		It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Monica Hesse 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imelda May 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lamar Alexander 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tavi Gevinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Griffiths 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Pearcey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vance Havner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brian Austin Green 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Hill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walt Whitman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe - pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rich Cohen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Monica Hesse