"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."

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"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."

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"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."

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"I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school."

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