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"What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs."
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"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
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"The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop."

"The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology."

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."

"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."
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"I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass."

"To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel."

"If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world."

"On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead."

"I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out."
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