"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."
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"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars."
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"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement."
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"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."
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"Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent."
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"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
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"I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines."
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"The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion."
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"Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host."
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"Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart."
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"He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose."
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"It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals."
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"Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs."
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"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
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"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."
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"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
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"The world is a grindstone and life is your nose"
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"It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips."
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"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin."
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