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"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."
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"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."
"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
"I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear."
"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?"
"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded 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."
"There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay."
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"Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light."
"I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected."
"So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's."
"As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely."
"Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful."
"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas."
"That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty."
"I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight."
"My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved."
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