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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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I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

Just Felt That Went
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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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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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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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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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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Difficulty I Write Notes Singing
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Critics Lie Many Strengths
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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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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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People do not make wars; governments do.
Governments Make People Wars
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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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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
Differently Hear Men Rhythm
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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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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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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Freedom Hands Law Loser
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Achieve Dare Ever Fail
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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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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Dedicate Gentle Greeks Let Us
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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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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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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Am Calling Destroy Find
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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 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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I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Day Ethic Every Every Single Hard
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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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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Does Ends Free Life
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Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Cookie Deeper Fortune Funnier
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Community Criminal Deserves Enforcement
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