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"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."

"Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air."

"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
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"I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words."

"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."

"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."

"As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer."

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."

"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
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