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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."
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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
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"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."
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"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides."
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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."
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"When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool."
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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
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"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."
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"It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA."
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"My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die."
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"Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time."
Time

"I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it."
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"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."
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"You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him."
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"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
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"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."
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"There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said."
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"Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right."
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