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"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either."
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"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."

"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."

"I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives."

"Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us."

"I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block."

"If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want."

"I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do."

"Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught."
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"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please."


"I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."


"Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion."


"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."


"The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea."


"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."


"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."
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