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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."
"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."
"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."
"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."
"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 feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover."
"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years."
"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."
"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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"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."
"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."
"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 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."
"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."
"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."
"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
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