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"I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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"Be different to make a difference."
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore."
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"It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine."
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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
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"That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was."
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"He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times."
Effort
"A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage."
Change
"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience."
Life
"I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were."
Difference
"We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free."
Open
"What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't."
Love
"The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job."
Time
"Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any."
Fun
"90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness."
Happiness
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