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"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."
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"You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!"
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"If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing."
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"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
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