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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Office

"I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office."

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
Office

"Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny."

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John F. Kennedy Politician
Office

"When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens"

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
Office

"Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office."

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Julie James Author
Office

"You’re right,” she acknowledged. “I don’t know you, really. We spent all of about thirty minutes together nearly a decade ago. Still, I think the Kyle Rhodes who walked me home and gave me the shirt off his back would do the right thing no matter how pissed he was at my office. So if that guy is hanging around this penthouse anywhere, tell him to call me."

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Kin Hubbard Cartoonist, Humorist
Office

"Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Office

"Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?"

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Barack Obama Politician
Office

"When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause."

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Barack Obama Politician
Office

"There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here."

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Barack Obama Politician
Office

"That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile."

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Barack Obama Politician
Office

"The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth."

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Barack Obama Politician
Office

"When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"I have never had to travel more than thirty seconds from home to office, and it's because of that that I've been able to maintain, really a family life that has nurtured and sustained me during this time [of presidency]."

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Barack Obama Politician
Office

"As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged."

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