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"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
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"I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star."

"So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one."

"I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity."

"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."

"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years."

"It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along."

"I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles."
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"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."


"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."


"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."


"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."


"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."


"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."


"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that."
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