"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for 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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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."

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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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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."

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"When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job."

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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

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"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."

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"I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan."

People

"Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place."

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"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship."

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"My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it."

Peace

"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."

Liberty

"I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France."

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"The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility."

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"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."

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"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished."

Government

"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."

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