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"All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about."
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"Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."

"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."

"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."

"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either."

"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."

"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."
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"Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product."

"It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions."

"There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude."

"Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before."

"There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on."

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"Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married."

"All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about."
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