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"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."

"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."

"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."

"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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