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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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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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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Critics Lie Many Strengths
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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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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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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'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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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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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Adversity Hard Hundred Man
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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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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Belt Direction Hollywood Just
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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

Adult Aspirations Attitudes Becomes
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The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

Between Communism Democracy Difference
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There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

Depend Far Get Many
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I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Along Business Come Happened
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Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Beginning Bigger Crowds Difference
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I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

About Acting Away Been
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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Brown Degree Fulfill History
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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

About Almost Dating Had
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Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

Also Economic Freedom Liberty
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Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Above Communism Compassion Everywhere
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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Experience Go Journey Learn
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

Because Different Does Just
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Because Jewelry Me Pain
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

Because Black Catholic Color
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

Because Down Edited Entertainment
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Books Forgotten None Remembered
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I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

Constitution Drafting Look U.S.Constitution
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

Ever Got Interested Really
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You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Caring Given Had Help
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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Buy Citizens Decision Democracy
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Answer Any Bear Blossom
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Beyond Cease Happiness One Way
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There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Being Constitution His Last
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The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

African African American American Class
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In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

Even Feel He Make Man
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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Chances Concern Considered Diminished
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My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

1950s Class Included Late
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Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Closed Door End Era
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

Books Death Death Penalty Most
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The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

Alone Certain Courtroom Eight
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The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

Active Along Change Citizenship
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Evil Good Nothing Save
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We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

Come Days Go Long
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'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

Clear Going Health Left
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Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.

Confidence Every Go Gonna
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I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!

Animals Bats Boiling Cats
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