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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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Personal Development
"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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Personal Development
"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system."
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Personal Development
"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."
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Personal Development
"In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries."
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Personal Development
"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."
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Personal Development
"The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially."
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Personal Development
"But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world."
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Personal Development
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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."
Country
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
Navy
"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."
Classroom
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
Work
"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."
Time
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
Truth
"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
Time
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
Living
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
Man
"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
Business
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