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| 'We have a President for whom English is a second language.' - Robin Williams | |
| 'What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?' - Ronald Reagan | |
| 'The greatest mind ever to stay in prep school.' - Norman Mailer | |
| 'He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machines.' - Auguste Renoir | |
| 'His writing is limited to songs for dead blondes.' - Keith Richards | |
| ''Déjeuner sur l'herbe'...is a young man's practical joke, a shameful sore not worth exhibiting in this way.' - Louis Etienne | |
| 'The trouble with [him] is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.' - Rosamond Lehmann | |
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| ''Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.' - Samuel Johnson | |
| 'The fool will overturn the whole art of astronomy.' - Martin Luther | |
| 'He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.' - James Reston | |
| 'The Prime Minister tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind, not a gift I would receive with alacrity.' - Denis Healy | |
| 'Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of wet toilet paper.' - Rex Reed | |
| 'He has so many fishhooks in his nose, he looks like a piece of bait.' - Bob Costas | |
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