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“Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.”
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“I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.”
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“When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]”
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“I am not against a little inflation.”
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“The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just ours to do with as we like. Neither does it say that God's sole interest is with the human species. We cannot allow such an important and influential book to become the preserve of those who want to exploit animals. The Bible needs to be read, studied, and reclaimed for the animals.”
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“There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well”
Source : Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.292, McGraw Hill Professional
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“All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.”
Source : How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975). Usually quoted as "smoke and mirrors."
