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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."

"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days."

"I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world."

"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names."

"I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back."

"Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had."

"I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could."
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