"It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it."
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"Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face."
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"I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!"
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"If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean."
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"It was like the top of the roof came off the house, .. He had that effect on everyone."
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"You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese."
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"I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you."
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"I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say."
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"Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell."
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"It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical."
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"I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away."
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"It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly."
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"I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it."
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"One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed."
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"If you feel like singing along, don't."
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"I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms."
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"I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next."
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"Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart"
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"Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis."
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"I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald."
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