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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 adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
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"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."
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"I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean."
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"I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates."
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"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."
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"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."
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"I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add."
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"Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me."
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"The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover."
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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
Time
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
Information
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"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."
Beauty
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
Books
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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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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"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."
Nature
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
Anthropology
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