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I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

Emmy Got Grammy Like
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When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

Dead Drink Got Manager
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Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

Clothes Complain Hear Loud
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

Behave Hold Important People
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The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

Better Practice Study Time
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Down Driven Executive Follow
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Away Being Civil Come
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Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

Enjoyed Everything Famous Full
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It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

Able Anonymous Create Feels
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

Ahead Brave Creative Like
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

Wall Step Beyond Going
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Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

Bottom Line Picture Understand
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Blues Dance Jazz Learned
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I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

Alternative Difficulty Figuring Lot
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

Come Endure Great Line
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

Brain Different Girl Grow
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Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Authority Fame Figures Finally
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

According Action Acts Afterwards
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Depends Failure Preparation Previous
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Forget Hear Remember See
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Abolish Act Association Begins
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Country Good Religion World
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Angels Character God Know
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Change Stupidest Wisest Men
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Inferior Right Sell Superior
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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Know Knowledge True
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Circumstances Earnestness Generosity Gravity
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Another Arise Cleverness Confusion
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Accord Act Bolt Classes
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Compassion Courage Moral Qualities
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Fear Find Heart Look
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Compared Exercises Virtue Government
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Achieve Bad Difficult Easy
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Consideration Direction Magnitude Taken
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Better Good Thoughts Large
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Appointments Death Depend Determined
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Brethren Country Good Mankind
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When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold.

Big Everyone Louis More
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Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

Creativity Decided Group Mix
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It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Arms Certain Close Immediately
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I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

Fiscal France French Fulfill
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I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

Albert Always Been Followed
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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Business Diminish Ever Greater
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Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Biggest Brand Exclusive Expansion
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Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Brought Childhood Enjoyable Entrepreneur
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I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

Campaigns Designers Discuss Future
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I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

Arms Close Immediately Round
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