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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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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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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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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."
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"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."
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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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"I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
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"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."
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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
Being

"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
Perception

"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
Music

"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
Music

"Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play."
Love

"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
Life

"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that."
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"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
Imagination
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