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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
"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."
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Personal Development
"The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests."
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"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."
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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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"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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"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."
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Personal Development
"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
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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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"People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words."
People
"For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time."
Time
"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."
Art
"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."
Being
"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
Guitar
"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."
People
"At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art."
Art
"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."
Trying
"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."
Music
"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
Guitar
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