"The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know."
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"People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today."
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"Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking."
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"I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring."
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"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination."
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"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."
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"Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."
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"I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be."
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"I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it."
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"I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions."
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"Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?"
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."
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"I was a freethinker before I knew how to think."
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"I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly"
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"Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms"
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"Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play."
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"She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS."
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"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."
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"If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later."
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"If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects."
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