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I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.

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• I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

  

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

  

  Faith Hill
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• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

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• I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.

  

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• We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  

  Hal Boyle
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• If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

  

  Jack LaLanne
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• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

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• What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.

  

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• History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.

  

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• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

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• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
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• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

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• The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

  

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• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

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• Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

  

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• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

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• Self-respect knows no considerations.

  

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• I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

  

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• I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

  

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• Now there's no *beeping* way in hell I'm gonna go over because I'm a little afraid of animals.

  

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• When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

  

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• There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.

  

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• I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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