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"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."

"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."
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"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."
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"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."

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"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."

"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."

"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."

"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."

"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
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