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"I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers."
"Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer."
"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad."
"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."
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"Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities."
"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
"These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people."
"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."
"Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music."
"Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe."
"Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records."
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