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" All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy. "
Live
Life
Happy
" All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ. "
Christ
Up
Gave
" A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. "
I Am
Short
Me
" Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. "
Way
Morning
Marriage
" I always say, 'Don't retire - inspire.' "
Always
Say
Retire
" I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me. "
Away
Buy
Me
" I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast. "
Poor
Father
Breakfast
" I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me. "
Coffee
Drink
Going
" I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more. "
Wish
Anything
Done
" If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything. "
You
Learn
Listen
" I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire. "
Stop
You
Inspire
" I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did. "
Show
Barn
Going
" I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern. "
Man
Only
Out
" I think without a doubt there will never be a voice like Judy Garland. "
Doubt
Like
Will
" I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height. "
Dating
Man
Me
" I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head. "
Me
Head
Hat
" I was a gnomish prodigy - half-human, half-goblin, man-child, child-man. "
Prodigy
" I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years. "
Thirty
Years
Boy
" I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920. "
Born
House
Table
" My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable. "
Money
Life
Decisions
" Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began. "
Wonder
Control
Life
" This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others. "
Only
Kind
Born
" When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...' "
Justice
Know
Peace
" Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped. "
Made
Get
Yeah
" You always pass failure on your way to success. "
Your
Always
Failure
" You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you. "
Never
Truth
Person
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