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"For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me."
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"I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!"

"I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country."

"Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap."

"For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me."

"I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all."
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"When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states."

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"Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States."

"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."

"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."

"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."

"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."

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"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."
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