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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."

"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
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"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."

"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process."

"I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back."

"Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to."

"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."

"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it."

"I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind."

"That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age."
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