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So, of all my childhood memories, there is
one
that stands above the rest.
One, to have that experience, but also that, hundreds of years ago, people had the foresight to set aside the very best places, the very best ecosystems in the country, for everyone.
In
one
of the first meetings that they had around this new system, he said, "If you're a writer, I want you to write about this.
Because each and every day at our recycling plants around the world we handle about
one
million pounds of people's discarded stuff.
Well it's predominantly because metals are very easy to recycle from other materials and from
one
another.
So it's very easy for either humans or machines to separate these metals from
one
another and from other materials.
This is just
one
example.
This is a photo I took standing on the rooftops of
one
of the largest slums in the world in Mumbai, India.
And instead of plopping down several hundred million dollars to build a chemical plant that will only make
one
type of plastic for its entire life, our plants can make any type of plastic we feed them.
And out the end of that part of the process come little flakes of plastic:
one
type,
one
grade.
Now a fundamental and really viscerally important experience for me, in terms of music, has been my adventures in South Africa, the most dizzyingly musical country on the planet in my view, but a country which, through its musical culture, has taught me
one
fundamental lesson: that through music making can come deep levels of fundamental life-giving trust.
Now it emerged early on in the first rehearsal period that
one
of those white performers had, in his previous incarnation, been a member of the South African police force.
One
of them was "Carmen."
And I think, in no small way, that's due to
one
fundamental fact: they're not bound to a system of notation.
And yet, ladies and gentlemen, every single
one
of us on this planet probably engages with music on a daily basis.
And if I can broaden this out for a second, I'm willing to bet that every single
one
of you sitting in this room would be happy to speak with acuity, with total confidence, about movies, probably about literature.
Shall we try that
one
again?
One
more time, with feeling, ladies and gentlemen.
No
one'
s listening.
No
one'
s trusting.
No
one'
s responding to each other.
Can I do that
one
again?
Now
one
day in 1772, the prince decreed that the musicians' families, the orchestral musicians' families, were no longer welcome in the castle.
I was having a discussion with my father
one
night, and he said, "You know, when you were two years old,
one
of the doctors suggested to your mom and I that you live in an institution, that they could just go ahead with their lives and raise their kids and kind of be done with having to deal with all the disability-related things.
One
of the first questions the doctor asked me was, could I please show her how I went to the bathroom.
I was 22 years old and you know when you go for any kind of an interview, you think about all the kinds of questions that people could ask you? (Laughter) That was not
one
of them.
One
would be too little.
And
one
of the most famous statements he had in his speech was, "Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down."
Let me give you just
one
example of this.
One
thing that this baby could be thinking about, that could be going on in his mind, is trying to figure out what's going on in the mind of that other baby.
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