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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know."

"The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them."

"Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair."
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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."


"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."


"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."


"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."


"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."


"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."


"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."


"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."
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