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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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I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Try Not Think About
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Accountable Actions American Broken
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It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

Always Wonderful Get Know
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Cabinet Even Matter Me
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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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I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

Been Different Different Types Listen
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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Anybody Chance Figure Hard
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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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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Because Everybody Harmony Just
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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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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Aggression Begins Believe Cheap
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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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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Abuse America Everything Forget
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Better Horse Inside Man
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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Abroad Innocent Innocents Play
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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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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Different Everybody Everything Experiences
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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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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Life My Ultimate Vocation
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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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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Acts Bend Change Each
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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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Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
Again Back Being Go
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

About Cause Dangerous Evil
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Challenging Difficult Filled Lived
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I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
Am Figure Going Out
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Gain Guide Live Living
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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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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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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Call Calls Child Convention
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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
Bigger Just Musician Scale
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Life for me is about movement.

About Life Me Movement
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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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You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Bit Careful Instrument Voice
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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Does Ends Free Life
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Songs are more powerful than books.

Books More Powerful Songs
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Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

Living Long Long Time Scary
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I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

Any Circumstances Foreseeable Friends
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

British Felt Identity Interested
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Anybody Changed Innovation Internet
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I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

All My Life Been Government Involved
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

About Anything Know Line
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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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