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"Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets. That's a metaphor." (Tracy Morgan, American actor and comedian, 30 Rock) "America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people." (Gloria Steinem) "America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance." (Gary Trudeau, American cartoonist) "America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school." (Dennis Miller) "America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization." (John O'Hara) "America too much rules. See cop, slow down. In American, you want to do something, you have to think. In Russia, just do it." (Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey star) "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "America's 'holiday from history' was a fake: America's peace was bought by the catastrophes going on elsewhere. Therein resides the true lesson of the bombings: the only way to ensure that it will not happen 'here' again is to prevent it going on 'anywhere else.'" (Slavoj Zizek, on 9/11/01, from Welcome to the Desert of the Real) "America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." (Bobcat Goldthwaite) "Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them." (George Bernard Shaw) |
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