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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."

"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."

"New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples."

"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."

"What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us."
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"I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace."

"Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album."

"My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material."

"I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?"

"I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off."

"We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing."

"Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No."
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