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Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

Greil Marcus

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SimpleMeListenMoreRealStage

My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

Jessica Valenti

WorkMarriageMotherTogetherLoss

Because entrepreneurship is so hard and does take so long to build something great, you do have to build an environment that you yourself as an entrepreneur want to work in for the next 20 years.

Jennifer Hyman

WorkGreatYourselfLongYouWant

Never trust people; always trust paper. I'd marry a piece of paper if I could.

Robert Rinder

TrustPeopleNeverAlwaysPaper

Charlie Sykes - someone none of us have ever heard of - is suddenly the star of MSNBC and CNN once he comes out against Trump.

Ann Coulter

SomeoneOutStarAgainstUsHe

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

Jeff Greenfield

PoliticsMoreHappenConspiracyThan

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Amy Tan

KindnessUniverseDesperationWhere

Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

Steven Pinker

PeopleMediaKnowWhyWillEvents

When I was growing up, I had a nanny who would always play 'The Sound of Music' and 'Bye Bye Birdie,' so I was always listening to that stuff.

Rumer Willis

MusicGrowing UpListeningPlayUp

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.

Martin O'Malley

PeopleAmericaCrimeGreatestCities

Men back up their words. Little boys run away.

Luke Rockhold

MenWordsBackRunBack UpUp

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

Diane Lane

WorkNegativeGunWeekKnowBecome

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

Dev Hynes

ColorSoundViceEveryYeahVersa

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