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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young pe

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country. – Jackson Browne

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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar. – Jackson Browne

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Birthday
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. – Jackson Browne

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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano. – Jackson Browne

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cool
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No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism. – Charles R. Poinsatte, Understanding History Through the American Experience

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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them. – George W. Bush

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Cant Swim. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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I like American history. – Kevin Costner

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Well, until this very day, Im still learning. – Dennis Brown

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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work. – Faith Evans

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My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play. – Freddy Adu

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