"Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on."

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"Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on."

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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."

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