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"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
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"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."
"There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it."
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"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."
"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."
"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
"I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it."
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
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