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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

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"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."

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"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."

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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."

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"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."

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"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."

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"The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck."

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"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free."

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"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

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"Criticize the act, not the person."

Mary Kay Ash, American Businessman

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"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

Frank Auerbach, German Artist

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Max Baer, American Athlete

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Michael Badnarik, American Politician

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