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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

Campaigns Candidate Emerges Enough
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I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.

Believe Cardinal Greatly I Believe
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I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

Bill Bill Clinton Came Clinton
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

Bet Bill Bill Clinton Clinton
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When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

About Dumped Egg Elections
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When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.

Apart Become Believes End
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The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.

About Backwards Ever Forward
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

Actually Church Figure Johnson
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Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

Airport Beat Before Connection
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I always find it offensive when people say God showers riches on you if you're good.

Always Find God Good
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Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

Back Business Campaigning Get
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It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.
Better Hates Married Momma
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There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

Democrat Democrats Even Hardly
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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

Cities Cluster Democrats Republicans
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My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.

Any Been Cape Day
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

Affiliation Ask Close Convince
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The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.

American Bush Disastrous Ever
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Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.

All Day Around Bore Bunch
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If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.

America Any Being Believe
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With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.

Almost Almost Everything Armed Armed Forces
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Against Argument Contrary Course
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Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.
After Each Enjoy Going
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Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

Actor Before Being Being A Man
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Actor Alone Being Concentration
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But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Behavior Come Conception Far
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Demands Disproportion Fault I Think
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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

After Between Bridge Dead
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

Actor Animals Boo Character
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
Doing Comes Gratification Results
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
Conditioning Crook Great Truly
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

Actor Dedication Duty Express
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
Allow Belief Considerations Must
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Acting Actor Anyone Director
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
Greatness Immortality Man Only
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Ever Gentle Only Really
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You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

Audience Eyes Hamlet Long
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Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

Afraid Because Considered Death
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The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you're so inclined.

Anything Away Because Camera
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I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.

Devil How Intense Know
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You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

Always Away Be Yourself Done
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An actor should be judged by his performance only.

Actor His Judged Only
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
Feel I Feel Only Only Time
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I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

Always Anybody Anything Enough
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I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And I started racing, and now I drive on the highways, I'm extra cautious because no one knows what they're doing half the time. You don't know what this guy is going to do or that one.

Around Because Bit Cautious
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The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

Happen Know Make Only
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Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.

Life A veil Dark Rough
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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Restore Institution Escape restoring Slavery
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That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw

Man Best Truth Good
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

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