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Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

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Randy Newman
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 28
Composer
Conductor
Film Score Composer
Journalist
Musician
Pianist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
LA
California
Randall Stuart Newman
Randall S. Newman
Baby
Boys
Crank
Beach
Musical

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I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.
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I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
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It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!
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I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.
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This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.
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I'm dreaming of a white president. Just like the ones we've always had. A real live white man. Who knows the score, how to handle money or start a war. Wouldn't even have to tell me what we were fighting for. He'd be the right man, if he were a white man.
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Rednecks always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
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You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.
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College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.
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