Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
David Byrne
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Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A. -
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That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
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