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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"

"The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort."

"Success is deliberate. It doesn't come as an accident. What you work for is what you achieve. Faith without work is a vain hope."

"You multiply your life when you invest it."

"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."
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"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."

"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."

"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."

"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."

"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."

"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
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