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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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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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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
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"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."
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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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"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
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"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
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"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
Life
"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."
People
"These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet."
Men
"We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody."
People
"I only direct in self-defense."
Self
"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively."
Living
"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."
Death
"We rest our case on the production numbers."
Numbers
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
Comedy
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