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"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it."
People
"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."
Talent
"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."
People
"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."
Europe
"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
People
"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
Art
"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."
Leader
"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."
London
"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
Jazz
"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
Jazz
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