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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
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Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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Leave the atom alone.
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
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A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
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For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.
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Someday I'll wish upon a star.
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When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.
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No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.
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Virtue is its own revenge.
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As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.
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This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.
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