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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

"We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it."

"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."

"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all."

"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."

"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."

"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."
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