"You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell."

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"You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell."

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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

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"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."

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"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."

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"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."

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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

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"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."

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"People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things."

Music

"The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in."

Now

"In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation."

Family

"So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe."

Music

"And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started."

Light

"But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him."

Change

"And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands."

Music

"People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band."

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"Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again."

Thought

"We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me."

Age