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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
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Personal Development
"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job."
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"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."
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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively."
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"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."
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"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."
Age
"Very dangerous things, theories."
Knowledge
"None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience."
Love
"It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?"
Dreams
"At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!"
Purpose
"Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee."
Education
"I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home."
Home
"There were crimson roses on the bench, they looked like splashes of blood."
Nature
"I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems presented to it by the modern world. For the tools of learning are the same, in any and every subject; and the person who knows how to use them will, at any age, get the mastery of a new subject in half the time and with a quarter of the effort expended by the person who has not the tools at his command."
Education
"I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction "from the woman's point of view. To such demands, one can only say "Go away and don't be silly. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle."
Humor
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