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"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless."
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"If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her."
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"Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire."
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"I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean."
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"This is America, where everything is still possible."
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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
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"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
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"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly."
War
"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
Books
"War is an abstraction."
War
"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."
Friendship
"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people."
Time
"It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media."
Media
"All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light."
Action
"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless."
American
"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
Blood
"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."
History
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