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"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."

"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."
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"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."

"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."
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"I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio."

"But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it."

"As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail."

"I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response."

"I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!"

"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been."

"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."

"Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways."
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