"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others."

-- George Soros

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“Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.”
“In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating all the proper controls and using considerable technical virtuosity. When he saw Crick's exasperated expression he said, "but Dr. Crick, we have got it right - we know it's right," Crick's response was, "The point is not whether it's right. The point is: does it even matter whether its right or wrong?"”
“I was about 20 when my mom got sick with cancer and it was bad. It was very scary and at the time I was doing my first screenplay and I was on deadline and was alone with my father in Massachusetts. I said, "Pop, you know, I don't how I'm going to work. I don't know how I can get this done. You know, I got to hand this script in and I can't think about anything but Mom." He said, "Well, you know, now is the time when you're going to learn what it means to compartmentalize." And those words really had an impact on me.”
“Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.”
“The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.”
“Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.”

Source : "Fictional character: Charlie Allnut". "The African Queen", 1951.
“Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't think about those those for a good four, five years, because they were just discovering the new tools and what they could do with them, you know? The big folk revival, I think is a backlash against that. And now, I think they'll probably try to find somewhere in the middle. It's interesting. It's like push-and-pull. It's always like that, you know? Music history is always like that, this repeating evolution of music.”

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