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If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!
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If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
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Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
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Take it easy, but take it.
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I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.
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