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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

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I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.

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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

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I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

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It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

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A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

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Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

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You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

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I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

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It means zero to be against greed.

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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

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