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"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"

"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced."

"A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket."

"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."

"Life is a curriculum unique to every student."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."


"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."


"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."


"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."


"I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding."
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