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"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."
"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."
"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
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"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."
"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
"Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough."
"There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year."
"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."
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