"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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"What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography."
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"This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."
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"The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't."
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"You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again."
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"A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it."
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"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job"
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"You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment."
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"What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be."
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"The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it."
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"My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet."
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"From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink."
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"Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public."
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"There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written."
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"Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp."
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"It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly."
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"I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic."
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"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces."
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"Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully."
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"What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information."
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