"I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large."
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"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came."
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"Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember."
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"I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else."
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"Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it."
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"I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect."
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"Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others."
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"I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad."
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"The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands."
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"When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect."
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"Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?"
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"Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life."
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"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."
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"Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same."
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"The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself."
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"I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else."
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"Say what you think; think what you mean."
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"I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone."
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""To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written."
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"I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I've reached that state."
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