"I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em."
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"Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free."
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"Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things."
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"I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer."
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"Gods always love the people who make 'em."
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"Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!"
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"There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters."
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"Some of the things are the same no matter which world you're in, kid. One of 'em is this: The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it."
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"There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em."
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"The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'."
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"If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is."
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"Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same."
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"A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard."
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"I'ma call my guns jumpers, cause my bullets just leapin to 'em."
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"We don't give 'em no respect..none!"
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"I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em."
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"It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe."
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"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."
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"All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten;' it would be greatly simplified"
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"I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end"
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