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After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.
~ Robert MacNeil
About
After
Became
Been
Biting
Both
Citizen
Country
Felt
Freer
Had
I Think
In The Past
Negative
Past
Positive
Say
Subconsciously
Think
Thought
Tongue
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Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
~ Robert MacNeil
Also
Could
Keep
Like
Myself
Opinion
Something
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And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
~ Robert MacNeil
Because
Designer
Favor
Gay
Son
Successful
Theater
Very
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But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.
~ Robert MacNeil
Belonged
Country
Emotionally
Every
Everything
Few
Finally
Had
Here
Invested
Just
Me
Mean
Other
Realized
Way
Where
Years
Years Ago
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I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
~ Robert MacNeil
Am
Better
Better Place
City
Contemplate
I Am
May
Never
New
New York
New York City
Place
Really
Retired
Retirement
Than
Think
York
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I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
~ Robert MacNeil
Almost
Britain
Canada
Canadians
Generation
Grew
Happening
Important
Kind
Last
More
Mother
Opinion
Than
Things
Thought
Up
Were
Who
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I never wanted to be a pundit.
~ Robert MacNeil
Never
Wanted
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I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
~ Robert MacNeil
Air
Happy
I Think
My Own
Necessary
Opinion
Own
Think
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Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
~ Robert MacNeil
Certain
Child
Heart
Magic
Mind
Parents
Plant
Quality
Some
Spirit
Spoken
Thrilling
Through
Uplift
Voice
Words
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Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
~ Robert MacNeil
Created
Every
Every Night
Fix
Get
Nation
News
Night
Television
Tune
Who
World
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The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
~ Robert MacNeil
Able
Afternoon
Being
Go
Greatest
Luxury
Movies
Now
Now And Then
Plays
Then
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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.
~ Robert MacNeil
Back
Brothers
Go
Homes
Istanbul
Japan
Last
Last Year
Month
Months
Nations
Native
Nearly
Nova
Nova Scotia
Spent
Summer
Three
Two
United
United Nations
Week
Where
Year
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Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?
~ Robert MacNeil
About
America
Closest
Closest Friends
Degree
Does
Even
Friends
Good
Had
How
Infection
Keep
Little
Minds
Need
Quite
Relentlessly
Resides
Saying
Says
Skepticism
Small
Well
Which
Why
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Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.
~ Robert MacNeil
About
After
Am
Come
Commitments
Halfway
Hope
I Am
Last
Last Year
Most
Novel
Now
Other
Out
Some
Speaking
Spent
Them
Through
Time
Will
Year
Yes
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You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
~ Robert MacNeil
Amount
Approach
Certain
Diplomacy
Good
Good Manners
How
Just
Learn
Manners
Things
You
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