"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

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"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."

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"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."

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