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

Abuse America Everything Forget
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Difficulty I Write Notes Singing
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People do not make wars; governments do.
Governments Make People Wars
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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
Differently Hear Men Rhythm
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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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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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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Against Everything People Time
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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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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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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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Life for me is about movement.

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

Bit Careful Instrument Voice
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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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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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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 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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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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Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Decisions Freedom Freedom Of Speech Goes
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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Else Every Every Time Getting
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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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No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

About Community Democratic Democratic Society
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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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When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

Attempt Businessmen Companies Competition
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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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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

Cannot Chaos Civilization Creates
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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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In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.

Activities Before Cases Come
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I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

Always Baseball Come Emphasized
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I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.

Am Any Ashamed Beaten
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We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Any Civil Civil Rights Continue
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Those movies sure got me into a rut.
Got Me Movies Rut
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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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From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.

Been Dedicated First Government
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The army teaches boys to think like men.

Army Boy Like Men
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