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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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"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
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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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"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."
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"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."
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"As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories."
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"I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there."
Thought
"First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids."
Time
"I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away."
Time
"I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it."
Golf
"One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written."
Goal
"I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood."
Company
"I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat."
Movies
"In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years."
Trying
"I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it."
Success
"There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories."
Chance
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