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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time."


"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."


"A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing."


"I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends."


"It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point."
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