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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."

"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."
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"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."

"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you."

"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."

"Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year."

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."

"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."
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