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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

"A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job."

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."

"It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did."
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"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."

"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"

"The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves."

"Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change."

"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do."

"When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't."

"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."
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