Nationality was – and is – far less a divide than age… because “everything is global, man!”

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it’s not than it’s a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
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Country Progress Stories
Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
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Jeans Rocks War
We’re a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that’s true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.
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Country Leader Self Worst
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That’s true about countries, too. We’re constantly telling ourselves the American story.
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Country Said Stories
Nationality was – and is – far less a divide than age… because “everything is global, man!”
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Age Divides Men
British films are all “room with a view and a staircase and a pond.”
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Pond Room View
American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is – along with Jazz – the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.
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Art Identity Real
I love the bullshit morning shows. They’re so stupid but I love them.
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Bullshit Morning Stupid

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