"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“What is your major malfunction?”

Source : R. Lee Ermey (2013). “Gunny's Rules: How to Get Squared Away Like a Marine”, p.88, Regnery Publishing
“Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.”
“It is typically Norwegian to be good”
“Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.”

Source : "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW: Ellen Malcolm: The Woman Behind All Those Women Candidates". Interview with Jacob Weisberg, articles.latimes.com. November 8, 1992.
“One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.”

Source : "Interview: Keith Carradine talks ‘Fargo’ and a ‘Deadwood’ anniversary". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 23, 2014.
“I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.”
“I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.”
“Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.”

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