"Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important."

-- Janis Ian

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“A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a single one had side effects as a result....”
“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.”

Source : "Play for today" by Pat Kane, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.
“I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing”

Source : "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.
“Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.”
“As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.”
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
“Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.”

Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press
“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”

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