"The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him."

-- Russell Baker

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“Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.”
“As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think I've only just got good in the last three or four years. I only watch my old films because, as someone who wasn't trained, that's how I look at my mistakes; I see something and I go, "Well, that's not good," and I learn from my mistakes. Same with the writing and same with the directing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice”
“The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this president around - the unions boss him around. Does that sound to you like they are consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course - of course, a black man can't be the real boss?”

Source : "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2011.
“Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.”
“I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.”

Source : "Defiant Gaddafi refuses to leave, says will die a martyr in Libya". www.indiatoday.in. February 22, 2011.
“I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear”

Source : "Gore Verbinski On Cancellation Of North Korea-Based Steve Carell Film" by Mike Fleming Jr., deadline.com. December 17, 2014.
“Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results”

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