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“The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.”
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“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.”
Source : "Rubinstein Was His Music" by John Guinn, Detroit Free Press, p. 8D, December 22, 1982.
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“When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.”
Source : Robert Fisk (2001). “Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA
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“It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.”
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“I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.”
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“When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.”
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“The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.”
