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"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
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"Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false."

"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."

"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."

"I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy."

"Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted."

"I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us."

"I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal."
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"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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