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"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."
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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."
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"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."
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"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing."
"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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"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words."
"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."
"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
"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."
"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."
"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."
"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
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