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" Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it. "

Wayne Newton

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" I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names. "

" I don't really believe in regrets. "

" I've always had great faith in people. "

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" When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. "

" There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me. "

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People

" If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today. "

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Things

" When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have. "

" I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old. "

" I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959. "

" But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend. "