I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENIf you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.
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We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another. We took care of one another. In the end, we kept faith in each other.
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If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.
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Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man, and i believe in a promised land.
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What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
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The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.
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Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
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Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night.
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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
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If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
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At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.
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Somehow all you ever need’s never really quite enough.
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You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.
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If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.
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