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"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
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"Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way."
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"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy."
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"Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity."
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"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."
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"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
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"Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas."
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"When you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many US citizens want to. I don't think that all of them necessarily are co-conspirators in this concept of empire. And those who are not, need to listen to other stories in the world - other voices, other people."
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"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."
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"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."
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"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."
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"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
Writing
"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer."
Writing
"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
People
"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."
Fun
"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
Security
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
Books
"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."
Family
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
Globalization
"I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers."
Life
"It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated."
Reading
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