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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."
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"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."
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"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
Music
"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good."
Music
"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."
Love
"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."
Inspirational
"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
School
"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
Music
"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
Ambition
"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
Life
"Hearing the blues changed my life."
Life
"I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across."
Want
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