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"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"
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"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind."
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"I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about."
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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
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"If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore."
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"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."
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"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."
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"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."
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"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
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"The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve."
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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
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"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
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"Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables."
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"I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music."
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"I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South."
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"I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy."
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"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."
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"You've got to change with the public's taste."
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"The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things."
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"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."
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"I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it."
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