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"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
People
"Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables."
Man
"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."
Music
"The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things."
Respect
"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."
Music
"I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it."
Heart
"The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear."
Fear
"I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers."
Help
"For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death."
Death
"If I could read it, I could play it."
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