"The students of Gallaudet have sent a powerful message across this country!"
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"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard."
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"After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try."
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"It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964."
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"Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone."
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"People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music."
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"Who am I to blow against the wind?"
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"A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young."
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"The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished."
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"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime."
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"We've survived by believing our life is going to get better."
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"When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism."
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"So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall."
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"Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same"
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"And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost."
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"I have my books and my poetry to protect me"
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"She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been"
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"I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs."
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