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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Ballot Ballot Box Box Civil
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Degree Foundation Government Inhabitants
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Dollar God His Man
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

Act Before Compare Educator
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Became Complete Fraud Intimidation
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I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

Anyway Greatest I Think Mirror
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Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.
Me Nobody Really Sensitive
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

Angry Any Australia Chill
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

About Actually Business Hardcore
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Artistic Arts Began Candle
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

Classes Cool Dance Dance Classes
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I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

About Area Away Become
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Accordance Better Conduct Dad
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

Anyone Bothering Could Done
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A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

About Bad Destroy Feel
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Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

Check Hospitals Like Lot
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

About Bodies Energies Everything
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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

Get Indispensable Information Leg
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

American American Music Audience General
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
Civil England Living Wonderfully
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

Always Am Away Back
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Art Censor Go Me
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

Fair Prudent Say Side
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

Getting Getting Older Higher Older
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Basketball Boat Current Excel
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Been Blows Comfort Day
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

Anything Big Big Mouth Creative
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I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!
About All Things Always Creative
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Book Break Distinct Down
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Best Big Characters Counts
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Audience Easy Exists Forget
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

Air Apps Download Everything
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Begin End Stop
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The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.
Rule Jam Tomorrow Yesterday
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit

Laughter Joy Mockery Opportunities
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When you are describing, a shape, a sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, with a sort of mental squint.

Shape Sound Tint Mental
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Take Care Sense Sound
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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Become Dracula Find Played
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“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”

Read Direction Directly Directed
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“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

Fairy-tales Happened Fancied Middle
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“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word.”

Better Language Pound Words
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I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Am Dependent Dime Food
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Accompany Because Europeans Heavy
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

Baseball Bills Challenge Describing
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Actions Doomed Equivalent Failure
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

About Against Anger Directed
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Awake Born Die First
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Careful Coin Determine How
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Boulder Bush Deep Dig
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