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"What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife."

"And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being."

"We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York."

"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."

"A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife."

"I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender."
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"Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all."

"I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them."

"I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back."

"I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people."

"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it."

"I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world."
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