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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

Duke Ellington

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Famous Fate Kindness Myself Young
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Evidence Love Myself Yourself
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Discipline Value Virtue
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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God Language Prayer Understand
Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Complex Form Simplicity
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Limitation Myself Time
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Entrance Sound Wings
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Doll Herself Pretty Woman
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Cloud Pass Sky
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Limitation Myself Time
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Country Enjoyment Listening Popular

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