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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."

"When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically."

"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up."
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"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then."

"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."

"The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it."

"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations."

"We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad."
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