
“I hate saying the same thing over and over again.”
XII. 453–454 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: Ross Barkan. " What Happened to Matt Taibbi? https://web.archive.org/web/20211126230239/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-happened-to-matt-taibbi.html", New York, 29 October 2021.
“I hate saying the same thing over and over again.”
XII. 453–454 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
I've been taken for far more rides
to places I've never been,
stabbed so many times in the back
I no longer feel a thing.
Oh, ask me what all this has taught me
and I'll tell you what I'll say:
"Hold on to what you got
and don't let it slip away.
Save it for a rainy day."
"Hold On To What You Got" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Hold On To What You Got" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YYinfmOUI (song on YouTube)
(+ Live performance in Japan, 1992. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrmDG7frD4
Song lyrics
Statement (17 November 1967), as quoted in Vietnam: A Television History (1983) "Homefront USA" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/series/pt_10.html
1960s
I've Always Been Crazy, title track from I've Always Been Crazy (1978).
Song lyrics
“… I am a New York designer and the things are made in New York…”
New York Times Interview (November 11, 2010)
Said in a speech http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/21/agreeing_to_disagree_or_someth.html near Kansas City, Missouri, 20 October 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/politics/22pennsylvania.html?hp
2000s, 2008