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"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"

"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."

"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."

"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."

"I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space."
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"I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient."

"It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense."

"I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles."

"You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes."

"Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company."

"I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores."

"You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition."

"I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness."

"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all."

"I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it."
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