"Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam."

-- Abdurrahman Wahid

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“To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.”
“Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.”
“In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.”
“Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.”

Source : "Mike Stern: About The Music". Interview with All About Jazz, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 23, 2004.
“If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.”
“People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment”
“Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.”
“Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.”

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