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"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?"
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."
"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."
"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
"There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views."
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"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."
"Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make."
"We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right."
"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."
"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."
"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."
"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."
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