You're sitting in an opera house with a lot of other people and you suddenly think, Oh my God, I'm actually alive, I am here, this is happening, and now it's over and if I don't remember it, it's gone.

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The one thing that I said during the campaign that maybe sounds like a bunch of campaign rhetoric, but now that the campaign is over I am going to repeat it and hopefully you guys will really believe me -- when you travel around the country, you are inspired by the grit and resilience and hard work and decency of the American people.

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