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"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

"I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it."

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches."

"There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing."

"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."

"The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible."

"There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs."

"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."

"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."

"I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play."
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