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"But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it."

"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."

"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."

"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."

"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."

"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."
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"The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave."

"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo."

"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity."

"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life."

"Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy."

"The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them."

"The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair."

"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation."
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