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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
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"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."
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"I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean."
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"I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates."
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"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."
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"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."
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"I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add."
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"Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me."
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"The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover."
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"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."
Business
"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."
Being
"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
Music
"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."
Brother
"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."
Heart
"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."
Music
"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
Fear
"I think that most people really know if it's a really great album."
People
"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."
Life
"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."
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