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Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.
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True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.
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Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.
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Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.
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Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
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An important work of architecture will create polemics.
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Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,
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We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
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The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.
