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"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."

"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."

"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result."

"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."

"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."

"I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends."
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"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."

"The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists."

"We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming."

"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."

"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."
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