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Dean Acheson

"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

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"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."

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"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."

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"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."

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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."

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"I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is."

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"You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands."

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Asa Don Brown

"I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street."

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"I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world."

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