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“I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.”
Source : "Actress-singer Nell Carter dies", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2003. 
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“I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.”
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“Eventually the world will no longer be divided by the ideologies of 'left' and 'right' but by those who accept ecological limits and those who don't.”
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“Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.”
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“Government is the enemy until you need a friend.”
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“The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.”
Source : Neil Simon (1971). “The gingerbread lady: a new play”, Samuel French, Inc.
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“If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.”
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“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.”
Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, May 1936
