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"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
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"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."
"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."
"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."
"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."
"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."
"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
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