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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."

"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."

"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."

"I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human."
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"People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time."

"In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful."

"American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has."
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