"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful."

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"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful."

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Eric Bogosian, American Actor

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Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright

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"Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon."

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"Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important."

Herbert Simon, American Scientist

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"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together."

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