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"I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive."
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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing."
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"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
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"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"Fortune befriends the bold."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"I should have my own publishing companies."
Publishing
"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."
Management
"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."
Class
"I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive."
Fortune
"I want to be a soul singer."
Soul
"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."
People
"If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move."
Community
"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."
Money
"We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing."
Money
"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."
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