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"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."
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"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."
"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."
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"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."
"I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."
"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."
"I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable."
"Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way."
"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."
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"I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence."
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"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands."
"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."
"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law."
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