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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

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James Lileks

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

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It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

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Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the chattering class over here and a you-go-girl from Red America. France could nuke an Algerian terrorist camp and the rest of the world would tut-tut for a day, then ask if the missiles France used were for sale. And of course the answer would be oui.

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All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

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The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.

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Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

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I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because. . . I can't do it authentically. . . I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

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