I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there’s so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I’m dead serious.
AARON MCGRUDERIn USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don’t really look for that, and I don’t expect to find it in any city.
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I don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that.
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Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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It may sound weird, but I don’t really look for culture, particularly in an American city.
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Obviously, there’s a million things we’re allowed to say on late-night cable that you’re not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.
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But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there’s a difference in the people, and I had health care.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.
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I don’t think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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It’s difficult to overcome what you’re getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.
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Voting really doesn’t mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it’s kind of a sham.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they’re gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I really get a little bit confused by all this “angry angry angry” talk when all I do is tell jokes and at least some people find it funny.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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