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Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

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I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

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I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

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Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

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I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

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One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

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I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

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I fought for peace in the fifties.

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I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

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Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

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You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

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I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

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