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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."


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


"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."


"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."


"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."


"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."


"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."


"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."


"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."


"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
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