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"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
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"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."
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"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
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"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."
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"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."
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"It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well."
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"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."
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"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
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"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."
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"Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start."
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"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."
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"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."
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"There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen."
Hell

"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
People

"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
Business

"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
World

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."
Love

"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
Living

"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."
Death

"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
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