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"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
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"We only see God when we see people."

"An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace."

"I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything."

"The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer."

"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

"Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it was that the woman who slept in his bed would be judged unworthy of his company. Her husband's fans recoiled from the notion that she might have made a significant contribution towards his achievement of greatness. The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained."

"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones."

"God recognizes celebration."

"An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream-in that particular month."
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"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

"When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."
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