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"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."

"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"

"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."

"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."
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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
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