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"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
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"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
"It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6."
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"Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help."
"And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening."
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"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."
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