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"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."
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"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."
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"Better be alone than in bad company."
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"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
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"The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me."
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"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
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"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."
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"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12."
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"The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring."
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"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."
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"I should have my own publishing companies."
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"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."
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"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."
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"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

"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."
Company

"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."
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