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"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
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"I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human."
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"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."
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"Americans are so dedicated to their jobs."
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"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."
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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
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"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
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"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
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"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
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"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
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"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
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"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
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"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
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