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When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#big #changed #coming #contract #did

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#appeals #commercialization #culture #go #i

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life. ↗

— Ben Sweetland

#case #could #further #harbored #least

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#attaining #end #force #grows #important

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consent #definition #governed #reason #slavery

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#everybody #face #generally #glass #own

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#catch #cobwebs #flies #laws #like

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#cold #esteem #love #love is #volatile

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#reporter #scholar