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"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."
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