"Discussion in America means dissent."

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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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."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

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"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."

Jeffrey Katzenberg, American Producer

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"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."

Bubba Sparxxx, American Musician

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"What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt."

Billie Joe Armstrong, American Musician

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Difference

"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

Humor

"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"

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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

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"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."

Time

"My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language."

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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

Fear

"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."

Being

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

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"The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road."

Knowledge