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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas."

"Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful."

"I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight."

"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."

"I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected."

"My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved."

"Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light."

"So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's."

"That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty."
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