"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture."
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"My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters."
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"America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections."
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"We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions."
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"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate."
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"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too."
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"Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary."
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"We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government."
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"Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education."
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"I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie."
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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
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"America wants its respect."
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"When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you."
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"Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest."
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"Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not."
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"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing."
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"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."
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"We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism."
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"So if you think America's politicians and citizens are willing to make the changes necessary to strengthen the U.S. dollar, then don't buy silver. But if you're like me and don't expect us, as a nation, to take our medicine, then short the dollar - and the way you short the currency is by going long on gold and silver."
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"The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America."
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