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Norman Lear

"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

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"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."

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"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."

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"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."

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"No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness."

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"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."

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"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."

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"Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that."

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