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Astbury talks about the public’s perception of him as an enigma:
Really? It’s strange because I don’t objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they’re usually awful. As you get older, it’s just, “Aww…” The last videos we did, Honey from a Knife, we’re not even in it! And for the Animals video, we’re only in a cameo. The most important thing for us is putting our music out there. The idea of being icons, I think it’s great when you’re 24. It’s fantastic. I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really. Adam Levine is good at that.
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Costello speaks about being an angry young man earlier in his music career:
I went to quite some lengths a number of years ago—30 years ago now, nearly—to dismantle the initial character that was sort of a contrivance between my naturally inappropriate appearance for the job of rock ‘n’ roll singer and, to be honest, my natural reticence and shyness.
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Pollard talks about making solo albums as opposed to group albums:
It really doesn’t, other than the idea in the back of my mind that a Robert Pollard album should maybe appear more like the work of a 56-year-old man, and I’m speaking mainly of the artwork and lyrics. With Guided by Voices it doesn’t need age restrictions. It can be as far out or “immature as necessary, not that Blazing Gentlemen isn’t far out — it’s just like, you know, with Peter Gabriel in early Genesis, he could be the Watcher of the skies, a Slipperman, Britannia or whatever, but on his solo albums he was just Peter Gabriel.
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Olbermann talks about working with Patrick on Sportscenter:
One of the things Dan and I thought was a really good way to pass the time on SportsCenter was to try to make the other one laugh uncontrollably—to possibly, you know, snort something out of the nose, to guffaw, to be unable to continue. You have to read the next highlight because I can’t talk.
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Greenwald discusses the possibility of writing a book:
I could have just sat back and not triggered any more risk for myself, or any more sort of recriminations. But, you know, the premise of what I was doing all along was that I wanted to report this story differently than the normal, unwritten rules between journalists and the U.S. government that typically govern how these things function. I wanted to be as aggressive as possible in how I reported them; I wanted them to actually make an impact.
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World Peace talks about growing up in Queens, New York:
The City now is way different than it was back in ’85. Especially in Manhattan. Back then, in the late ’80s and early ’90s, it was definitely and heavily drug-infested. I can only ever remember how drug-infested it was when I reminisce about it. I remember in my neighborhood, people tried to come together and do good things. But I think a lot of people fed off the fact that we were struggling in my neighborhood and the best way for them to cope was drugs.
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Murray speaks about serving as a color commentator for a Chicago Cubs baseball game:
It was really thrilling. Harry Caray had been ill or something, and he couldn’t do the first half of the season. So they got a guest person to do the game every day. I started watching the games just to see what people were doing. I mean, I watch Cubs games anyway, but I saw that these people were trying to be broadcasters. And I thought, What the hell? That’s not how I would do it. So I made the decision to do it as a fan, calling it like a person would sitting in front of his TV. I was very fortunate.
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Navratil talks about how he got his start in cliff diving:
I started with my first twenty meter when I was 18 years old in the European Championships, in Switzerland, and there I did my first somersault from that height. Afterwards I kept progressing in height and quality of the diving, and five years later I went for the first competition from 28 meters, Marmeeting in Amalfi coast (Italy).
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Huppenkothen appears on the cover of the June 2013 issue of Esquire Mexico magazine.
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Pitt talks about being a drifter in his younger days before he made it in Hollywood:
I’d get so far and then want to do something else. I mean, I’m two credits short of graduating college. Two credits. All I had to do was write a paper. What kind of guy is that? That guy scares me — the guy who always leaves a little on his plate. For a long time, I thought I did too much damage — drug damage. I was a bit of a drifter. A guy who felt he grew up in something of a vacuum and wanted to see things, wanted to be inspired. I followed that other thing.
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DeSalvo talks about taking a public health approach to violence in an interview with Esquire Magazine.
We have a public-health approach to violence in New Orleans. We believe that violence is a transmissible thing, just the way a disease is. You have a source population, and a means of transmission — that would be the gun — and you have a susceptible population, into which the violence is transmitted.
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Warren gives her thoughts on the Obama financial bailouts:
You know, without restrictions, no. So I’m going to put it this way: It was clear something had to be done. The part that I was just beside myself over was the lack of accountability. I mean accountability in every meaning of that word: how the money would be given out, whether or not the banks would be accountable for it. Go back and look at that first report, because that’s what that first report is about. I could not believe that, that the treasurer of the United States government was shoveling money out the door to the nine largest financial institutions on a no-questions-asked basis…. And in some ways it was worse than that, because it not only had no restrictions to speak of, it had no restrictions in the statute — it was a bait-and-switch.
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Ryan talks about why he voted for TARP:
No. I don’t. Look, first of all, you don’t look back on these things. The reason I voted for TARP is I legitimately worry about us having a deflationary spiral, and what that means is thousands of businesses would go belly-up and bankrupt through no fault of their own.
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Bell talks about starring in the film Hit & Run with Shepard:
You couldn’t find two more extremes. He used to be a drug addict, and I don’t know if I’ve even seen cocaine at a party, let alone done it. When I found out that my Prince Charming has gone on five-day benders where no one could find him, I was like, Wait, what?
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Murray talks about working with Willis in the movie Moonrise Kingdom:
I got along great with Bruce Willis. He’s different, though. He’s rolled as a movie star for a long time, so it’s a little different for him coming into Wes Anderson’s world, where no one gets movie-star treatment. Life really does change when you go on one of Wes’s films — you gotta sit back and relax. But Bruce absolutely delivered. He was really game. It was like, Let’s play. Sometimes you get people that don’t want to play — they just want to perform, to act. He’s a movie star, I’ve been a movie star — we don’t have to take this so seriously.
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Van Halen discusses his music standing the test of time:
Yeah, it does hold up, but that was kind of purposefully done. Before we decided to actually make a full record, we said, Hey, let’s do some old demos. And we actually recorded three of them already. And I engineered She’s the Woman, Out of Space, and Bullethead, and it ended up turning into a whole record. But we figured: Why not give fans the era that they liked, you know? But not the whole album is that. It’s just like a third old, a third middle, and a third new.
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Clinton talks about his Clinton Global Initiative:
I just kept feeling that there was more possibility to create jobs in America without some huge government initiative. That if we could get businesses that are doing well together with people with good ideas, and with people that are doing training, and with banks that are willing to loan money under certain circumstances, then we could do some good. That’s what led to CGI America. And the commitments we’ve gotten will create or fill existing vacancies that haven’t been filled in months for more than 150,000 jobs and give more than twice that many people more-relevant job training. We also got another $265 million in direct commitments for investments of low-interest loans to small entrepreneurs.
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Navalny talks about the federal parliamentary elections on December 4 in Russia and the protests that followed:
Everybody was nervous and worried, myself probably more than others, because I initiated a campaign against United Russia, the ruling party, under the slogan Party of Crooks and Thieves. The slogan appeared by accident — during a radio show, the host asked me how I felt about United Russia, and I said, Very bad. United Russia is a party of crooks and thieves. Later, I announced a poll on my blog — Do you consider United Russia to be the Party of Crooks and Thieves? — and 97 percent of 40,000 people said Yes, and away we go. From the very beginning, it was clear that the election was going to be unjust, but I really wanted to know if one could do any significant damage to United Russia by means of a campaign launched on the Internet.
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Piombo discusses his experience with the Scottish clothing mills:
At first, [the old Scottish mills] didn’t want to know when I went to them — they were more interested in making lighter commercial cloths that were kind of boring. But eventually they fished out their old archive books and they were amazing. Much of the old ways of weaving (which still, miraculously, hang by a thread) were done by single weavers working in their own crofts. This, for Massimo, was — and remains — a virtue.
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Upton discusses her body maturing:
I don’t really know what the appeal is about… boobs. But I do know that when I was in junior high, I used to be made fun of — for being flat-chested. Everyone would go, She’s not pretty! She doesn’t have boobs! So I always had boob envy. And when finally I went through my growth spurt, and they appeared, and I just… I loved them. So that’s why I like boobs, because I didn’t have them, and then I got ’em. So I dunno what the appeal is for you.