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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ’ I say, ‘Your salary.’

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Michele Bachmann’s first answer was, I wish the federal government had defaulted. Had defaulted! A week after Americans lost—some of them perhaps lost half of their pensions. Lost half of their 401ks. When trillions of dollars went down the drain with Americans suffering, she said that and got applause, and if anybody thinks that guys like my dad are going to be voting that way…they are out of their mind and they are too stupid not only to prognosticate, they are too stupid to run Slurpee machines in Des Moines…Michele Bachmann is a joke. She is a joke. Her answer is a joke. Her candidacy is a joke…Iowa, if you let her win, you prove your irrelevance once again.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.