He's a legend and will always be a legend, and I for one have him to thank.

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He had that insight way before it came about.

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Way before it was popular, he said that I could go far in this business. He kept saying I'd be president and then I said I'd be state president. He encouraged me, and I never thought that I, a little boy from Brooklyn, New York, could do those things. Mel was always ahead of the curve.

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