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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress."

Country Fall Nice
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world."

Real Country New York
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world."

Believe Country Europe
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by the gods to govern the planet." But the truth is that what counts is getting hold of the last oil reserves. Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the country is going to absolute ruin."

People Country Powerful
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids."

Country War Temper
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other."

People Country Enemy
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything."

Country Religious Gay
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country."

Real Country Clever
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country."

Writing Country Father
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Country

"My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country."

Country Political My Family
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Greg Brown Musician
Country

"I think the sweet thing about my job, more than the music I sing, is that I come into some town and a really cool community of people gets together. And they meet each other and maybe somebody falls in love or starts a little business together. I really see that as my role as I travel around the country."

Country Sweet Falling In Love
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Greg Hicks Writer
Country

"It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect on the tragedy of that day and the events that have unfolded from it, and recommit to the ideals of freedom that epitomize our country and our vow to never forget."

Country Tragedy Remembrance
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Greil Marcus Music Critic
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"If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end."

Book Country Done
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Gustave Flaubert Novelist
Country

"I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them."

Country Character Reading
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Gwynne Dyer Journalist
Country

"The military profession, especially in the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress. Professional officers are trained to think in terms of emergent threats, and this [climate change] is as big a threat as you are going to find. Never mind what the pundits are telling the public about the perils of climate change; what are the military strategists telling their governments? That will tell us a great deal about the probable shape of the future, although it may not tell us anything that we want to hear."

Country Military Stress
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Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer, Novelist
Country

"Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity."

Country Ocean Beach
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Gray Davis Politician
Country

"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth."

Country Son Daughter
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