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"Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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"There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America."

"But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world."

"Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though."

"We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation."

"You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour."
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