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I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

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It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

Any Disgusting Dry Father
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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Decline Ever Listened Other
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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Am American Audience Color
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Am Anybody IAm Never
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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other
Back Care Clock Each
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People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Am How I Am Just
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I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Because Call Christianity Churches
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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

Disagree Important ImportantThing Learn
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The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

Because Been Check Checked
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Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.

Done Every Few Once
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Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Education Experience Fine FinePrint
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If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

Always Audience Get Got
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

Able Answer Away Blot
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Businessman Businessmen Came Doctor
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Against Child Child Labor Crime
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Academia Father Good His
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

Age Am Children Committee
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I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

Along Biggest Came Depression
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According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

According Atheist Because Definition
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Between Break Cause Child
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I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

Cry Editorial Good GoodSong
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You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

Been Big How Made
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

Child Closer Each Each Time
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I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

Also Amount Big Country
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Advocating Been Child Children
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I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

Batch Deadly Different DifferentKinds
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

Buying Child Conditions Equally
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

Am Around Child Education
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

Child Go God I See
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The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

African American Around Bad
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

Also Billion India Land
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I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Festivals Few Found Having
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I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

Child Dream Every Free
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

Beautiful Child Childhood Eye
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I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Apart Believe Come Communist
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Child Divine Every Fundamental
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Guitar Half Instrument Life
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

Child Child Labor Growth Illiteracy
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Accountability Across Against Child
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

Ages Been Biggest Childhood
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

Action Attention Community Concrete
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
Children Compassion Let Us Our
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

Child Childhood Every Matters
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Call Education Exploitation Liberty
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I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

Am Behind Chair Children
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