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"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault."
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"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."
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"Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it."
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"For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter."
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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
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"I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake."
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"Don't be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth."
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"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."
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"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."
Music
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
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"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."
Life
"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War."
War
"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."
Lifestyle
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
History
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
Identity
"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."
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"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"
Time
"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."
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