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"Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity."
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"As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have."
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"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
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"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
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"Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted."
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"I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity."
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"Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity."
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"It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity."
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"I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity."
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"I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself."
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"Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end."
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"I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me."
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"I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit."
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"You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do."
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"It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world."
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"I think it's good to meet smart people and talk."
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"Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person."
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"For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated."
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"Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights."
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"If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive."
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"Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity."
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