"Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life...but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future."

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Source : "Minister of Counterculture". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2005.

Gilberto Gil

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“I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.”
“General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure, a family, a culture if you isolate it from its context. Relationship is everything.”
“When a human's tears finally dry up forever, they transform into a monster.”
“This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.”
“It's lame when I'm hanging out with my friends and they're so busy taking pictures to put on Facebook, instead of enjoying what they're doing. You're gonna look back and have 10 million pictures, but you're not in one of them because you were too busy clicking away. I think it's best to stop telling people about it and enjoy the moment you're in yourself.”
“A child can escape the shadows.”

Source : Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction Address, delivered 31 May 1995
“I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.”

Source : "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.”

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