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"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
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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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"Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization."
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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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"Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas."
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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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"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."
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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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"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."
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"It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today."
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"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
Globalization
"I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man."
People
"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."
Fun
"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
"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
"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
"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
"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
Writing
"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
Pleasure
"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
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