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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Always Been Concentrated Enemy
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Around Days Feeling Ideas
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

Believable Character Characters Find
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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

After Born Days Did
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Desk Nuclear Nuclear Power Plant
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Could Economy Few Government
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

Always Around Different Doing
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Accepted Actor Along Couple
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Behind Better Camera Cast
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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Admitted Always Passions Ruled
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Armed Deadly Frightening Hit
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There's no such thing as an original sin.

Original Original Sin Sin Thing
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Authority Being Best Carried
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Around Been Creator Environmental
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Back Crocodile Eat Feeding
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Business Close Coast Hell
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Advantages After Being Classified
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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Because Actor Pretend Fake
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
About Because Came Four
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On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

Good Night Underwear Bras
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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

America Counted Did Had
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

Again Always Because Could
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

Curiosity Ideas Music New
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Album Ever Experience Happened
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Going Just Need Obscurity
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Believe Connected Human I Believe
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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Course Me People Quotes
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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Any Change City Claim
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Believe Evil I Believe I Believe That
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Certainly Destroyed Destroying Ever
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

All Our Lives Black Go God
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Change Enemies Motivator Nice
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Children Come Down Far
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Activity Arena Bodies Clearly
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

America Answer Diversity Freedom
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Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Ask Dream I Dream Men
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If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Anyway Basic Chance Changes
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Always Believing Books Boy
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Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Apply Boston Even Father
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When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Boy Driving Got High
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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Along Electrician Got Line
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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Big Came Got Had
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They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Broke Loose Me Put
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I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Allen Did Ed Sullivan Four
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Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Hollywood Later Make Me
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