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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
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"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job."
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"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."
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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively."
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"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."
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"I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view."
Psychology
"When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend."
Fear
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Job
"We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."
Psychology
"Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh."
Emotion
"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead."
Integrity
"Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby."
Humor
"I wanted to join Footlights, he says. "I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken."
Career
"Don't panic and carry a towel."
Life
"The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone."
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