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"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
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"Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul."
"Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important."
"The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen."
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"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
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