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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
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"I've always been crazy for the American songbook."
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"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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"I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world."
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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
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"I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today."
Business
"The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so."
People
"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
Popular
"To work is to feel alive."
Work
"I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing."
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"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform."
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