"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."

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"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

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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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"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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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

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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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"Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'."

Lin Biao, Chinese Politician

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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

Lynndie England, American Criminal

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"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."

Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman

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"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."

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"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to."

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"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."

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"I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God."

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"If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover."

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"I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave."

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"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode."

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