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"I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed."
Success
"For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out."
Sound
"I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places."
Forget
"Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last."
Blessing
"If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us."
Play
"If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes."
Quality
"We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument."
Family
"Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor."
Conversation
"When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh."
Country
"By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family."
Family
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"Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them."
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Personal Development
"There is no limit or borderline to achieving whatever you are set-out to achieve in life."
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Personal Development
"The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers."
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Personal Development
"I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this time; the thoughts of everybody; how do I deal with that obstacle? how do I get there? ; troubling questions for everybody! Releasing ourselves, plugging into the purpose, challenging the challenges, questioning the unquestionable, taking the chances; the asset and audacity of somebody. Everybody has a dream but, it is somebody who gets to the dream."
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Personal Development
"When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don't teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people's inadequacies."
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Personal Development
"The ordinary build houses when they have bricks, the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles."
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Personal Development
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
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Personal Development
"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."
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Personal Development
"Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!"
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Personal Development
"I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels."
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Personal Development
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