"A good bassist determines the direction of any band."

-- Ron Carter

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“Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.”
“It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."”
“It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.”
“The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.”
“That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least.”
“I've never really done any interviews as myself.”

Source : “Sacha Baron Cohen Interviewed As Himself By Howard Stern” by wenn.com, May 9, 2012.
“I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up”
“Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.”

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