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"Yeah, I have giant breasts — in a bra. It's so disconcerting — there are so many women now with fake breasts that that's the standard; that's what you're supposed to look like. But real boobs don't lo…"

"CBC Archive - Iggy Pop interview with Peter Gzowski March 11, 1977."

"esearchers... were a bit frustrated... seeing so many chronic conditions ties to mouth breathing, and how so many... could either be improved or... cured by switching the pathway in which you breath."

"I play with syllables and sport in song"

"When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was."

"I don’t buy the common notion that if the US and South Korea promise convincingly enough never to topple the Kim dictatorship from without, it will let itself be toppled slowly from within."

"Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss."

"Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on."

"In the most abstract sense, a system is a set of objects together with relationships among the objects. Such a definition implies that a system has properties, functions, and dynamics distinct from it…"

"The Master Great Cultural Figure cannot be communicated with, at all."

"We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his collective tribal world and beaches him in…"

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."

"Whether its Berkowitz, whether its Bundy, whether its... Wayne Williams down in Atlanta..., or Charlie Manson—I don't comment about other cases for the simple fact is that I wasn't there."

"The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises … the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It…"

"The William Morris Gallery is threatened with closure"

"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with an anime avatar calling you a cuck"

"I'm a clown with brush and color."

"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

"Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he wo…"

"Boyd, Julian P. et al, eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. The definitive multivolume edition; available at major academic libraries. 31 volumes covers TJ to 1800, with 1801 due out in 2006. See desc…"