"A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid."

-- Lawrence Lessig

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“I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut”
“Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.”
“Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.”

Source : "Zola Pieterse finds peace in native land" by Duncan Mackay, Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2005.
“I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.”
“But wherever I was I played baseball. That's all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go.”
“I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.”
“It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all”
“The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying,”

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