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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America."
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"I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that."
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"It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation."
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"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
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"But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone."
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"We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities."
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"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
People
"Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents."
Work
"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."
Development
"Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent."
Talent
"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."
People
"The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price."
People
"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."
Artist
"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."
Business
"Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it."
People
"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."
America
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