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Michael Stipe

"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"

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"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."

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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."

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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

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"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

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"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."

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"If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well."
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"So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day."
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"So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon."
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"Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music."
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