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"The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue."
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"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."
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"My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences."
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"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
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"I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it."
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"Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons."
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"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die."
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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."
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"Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second."
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"I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know."
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"But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days."
Now
"And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music."
Music
"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
School
"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."
Force
"You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music."
Music
"And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people."
People
"And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it."
Wife
"And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family."
Family
"You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road."
Being
"You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that."
Family
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