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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.

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I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
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I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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