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Transcript: The Julian Assange Interview

Transcript: The Julian Assange Interview

Transcript: The Julian Assange Interview

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Q: Here you are facing, possibly facing, very, very serious charges indeed, double rape even, is a possibility—and you are saying: “I will not go back to the country where those offenses are alleged to have been carried out to face the music.” JA: No, I have never said that. Q: In that case you can catch the next plane back to Sweden. JA: No, I do things according to proper process. I stayed in Sweden for five weeks to enable that proper process to occur. Proper process did not occur.

Source: BBC
Published: Dec 21, 2010
Length: 14 minutes (3,504 words)

Playboy Interview: John Lennon and Yoko Ono (1980)

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PLAYBOY: What is the Eighties’ dream to you, John? LENNON: Well, you make your own dream. That’s the Beatles’ story, isn’t it? That’s Yoko’s story. That’s what I’m saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

Source: Playboy
Published: Jan 1, 1981
Length: 96 minutes (24,169 words)

The Fresh Air Interview: Jay-Z

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GROSS: You know how a lot of hip-hop artists, when they’re on stage they kind of like grab their crotch?

JAY-Z: Yeah. I have a great explanation for that. … When you get up there [on stage] you feel naked, right? So when you feel naked what’s the first thing you do? You cover yourself. So that bravado is an act of I am so nervous right now and I’m scared to death. I’m going to act so tough that I’m going to hide it. And I have to grab, you know, my crotch. That’s just what happens.

Source: NPR
Published: Nov 16, 2010
Length: 35 minutes (8,891 words)

A Cocktail Party In The Street: Interview with TGI Friday’s Founder Alan Stillman

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In 1965, Alan Stillman was a young man living in Manhattan, who, in his own words, was “looking to meet girls.” The bar restaurant he founded, T.G.I. Friday’s, began life as a public cocktail party — the first neighborhood joint to welcome both men and women alike, with the express motive to unite the two. Forty-five years later, Stillman’s singles’ bar in the Upper East Side has metamorphosed almost beyond recognition, spawning a landscape of casual dining franchises that redefined the American idea of the restaurant.

Published: Nov 15, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,193 words)

Interview: Bob Woodward

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On his book, “Obama’s Wars.” “Biden says, ‘You’re gonna have to make some goddamn tough decisions, man’ Not ‘Mr. President,’ [Laughs.] but ‘man.'”

Source: Onion A.V. Club
Published: Oct 21, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,188 words)

John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript

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“He was a person of huge vision. But he was also a person that believed in the precise detail of every step. He was methodical and careful about everything — a perfectionist to the end.”

Source: Cult of Mac
Published: Oct 14, 2010
Length: 33 minutes (8,322 words)

Obama in Command: The Rolling Stone Interview

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In an Oval Office interview, the president discusses the Tea Party, the war, the economy and what’s at stake this November

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Sep 28, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,065 words)

Interview with Don DeLillo: ‘I’m Not Trying to Manipulate Reality—This Is What I See and Hear’

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Don DeLillo, in a rare interview, talks about living the American dream, growing old and how an art installation inspired his latest novel, Point Omega

Source: The Guardian
Published: Aug 8, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,945 words)

High Stakes Criticism: An Interview with Greil Marcus

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Source: PopMatters
Published: Apr 26, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,239 words)