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"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."
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"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"

"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."

"America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV."

"In America everything's about who's number one today."

"If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

"We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide."
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"The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago."

"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."

"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been."

"Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways."

"I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio."

"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."

"I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours."

"But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it."
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