In 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.
AARON MCGRUDERI think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won’t look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I’m not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.
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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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Fame is not your friend. It ain’t necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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I think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won’t look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I’m not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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I think there’s a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you’re lucky, make a decent living here. That’s a big plus. That’s pretty positive. The weather is OK.
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Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked… and he talked during the meeting. I think it was about four hours. But I guess that’s part of the Castro spirit.
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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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It may sound weird, but I don’t really look for culture, particularly in an American city.
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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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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.
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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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We don’t need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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