For instance not so much recording Dylan - and I recorded Randy Newman, one of the first people who did record his songs, and I found and recorded many, many of - well, Leonard Cohen came to me to find out whether I thought he was a songwriter, which I thought was peculiar for a monk not to know.

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After that speech, a number of individuals from the private sector came up to me and said that they thought the speech was basically a very strong speech, it was an emotional speech, and it was the sort of speech they didn't ever personally want to hear again.

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This thought came to me when I watched a commercial for a company that encouraged people to mail in their gold jewelry with the promise of an envelope with a fat check mailed back to them.

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This thought came to me as I was reading about a project called 999Bottles ( www.999Bottles.com).

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This came as a bit of a surprise to me as I had thought that France and Germany combined made up half of the eurozone's economy.

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Even at that young age I can remember the feeling of fear that came over me when I thought about my dad going to work for a company named after a fruit.

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When it came time to decide on my next smartphone the thought of having to learn a whole new device was making me barf.

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