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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
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"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."
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"Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country."
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"We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!"
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"But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
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"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."
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"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."
Life
"It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed."
People
"We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right."
Fight
"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
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"When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain."
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"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
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"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."
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"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."
Happiness
"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
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