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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading

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