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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
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We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
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The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
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One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
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