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"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great."

"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."

"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

"A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter."

"Most of the people who get off at our exit get off by mistake. They thought it was Exit 57."
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"As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought."

"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important."

"My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time."

"I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time."

"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."

"We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed."

"A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention."
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