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" Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971. "

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" I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again. "

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