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"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
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"Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat."
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"I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath."
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"Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press."
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"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
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"Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me."
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"TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press."
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"We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us."
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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
Equality
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
Society
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
War
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
Men
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
Men
"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."
Business
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
America
"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
Complaint
"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing."
American
"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."
Anxiety
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