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"Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful."
"In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we."
"Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s."
"So don't blame me for the problems. You can't fault me for it. You can't blame me. You want to blame me but I'm just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it."
"It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance."
"America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music."
"The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America."
"A turning point in modern history."
"How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?"
"In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go."
"America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory."
"America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long."
"In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy."
"What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts."
"Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it."
"The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian."
"I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share."
"What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export."
"New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10."
"It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of the 19th century also. The know-nothings were a Protestant movement, and they rejected Catholics and didn`t want Catholics brought into America."
