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"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."
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"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."

"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."

"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."

"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."

"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
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"People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed."


"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."


"Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done."


"If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear."


"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."


"What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man."


"Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep."
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