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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 12, 2026
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)  
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)  
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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Carrie Fisher (1956 - )  
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