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“So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.”
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“God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ***** in line.”
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“I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation - to serve in parliaments, - and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.”
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“Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.”
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“What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.”
Source : "Rupert Everett: the queen of mean" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012. 
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“I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.”
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“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
Source : "Raffi: Advocate for Children, Earth and Music". Interview with Marilyn Price-Mitchell, www.rootsofaction.com. August 2014.
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“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
