"If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change."

-- Harold Nicholas

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“I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.”
“My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.”
“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”
“I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.”
“Donâ€™t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. Iâ€™m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.”
“The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.”
“From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.”
“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.”

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