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"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
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"I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts."
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"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great."
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"We are what we think."
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"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
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"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."
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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
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"I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring."
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"Think of what you desire out of life."
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"A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter."
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"In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding."
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"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."
Life
"There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen."
Hell
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
Idea
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
People
"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
Business
"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
World
"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."
Love
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
Living
"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."
Death
"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
Beer
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