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So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best. ↗

— David Frum

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The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

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Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally. ↗

— David Frum

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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. ↗

— John Frusciante

#being #better #clearer #doing #feel

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet. ↗

— John Frusciante

#available #avoiding #because #been #doing

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence. ↗

— John Frusciante

#because #been #being #emotion #energies

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me. ↗

— John Frusciante

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For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do. ↗

— John Frusciante

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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. ↗

— John Frusciante

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I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. ↗

— John Frusciante

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