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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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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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"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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"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
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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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"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."
Life
"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."
Time
"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
"To work is to feel alive."
Work
"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
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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."
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