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"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."
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"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
"The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election."
"I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association."
"Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious."
"I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio."
"By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world."
"But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania."
"When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy."
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"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."
"If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have."
"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."
"So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring."
"I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows."
"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
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