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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."
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"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."

"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank."

"I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels."

"What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance."

"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."

"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen."
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