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Being born on the brink of a century is always a bad idea; let alone of a millennium.

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A city that never sleeps never dreams.

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I need the hell in my mind to forge my ideas.

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America is still running on this notion that it is a land of plenty, that anybody has access to an endless bounty. The concept that somebody could fall on hard times simply does not exist.

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Jazz was the pomade on the wild curls of Blues.

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America is institutionalized anarchy, a social darwinist arena, capitalism's penal colony.

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Puritanism is the most destructive force in American history.

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Libertarianism is the epitome of American bullshit. You can’t have a society that’s both complex and primitive; hedge funds and summary justice.

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After the US came out of the 1970s shattered and disillusioned, Reagan reinvented the nation. Obama was supposed to do the same after the Bush debacle, but failed miserably.

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What’s the point in doing something if it isn’t original.

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Laurence J. Peter

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Turning something into a franchise is a sure way of killing it.

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You won’t get anywhere with roots, but being a tumbleweed isn’t better either.

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Unlike the left, the right’s not stupid enough to believe its own propaganda.

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Don’t become a slave of your own body.

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New Hollywood

It was like the death of Kennedy, the Vietnam War and Watergate forced America to grow up. It was like a brief breath of  fresh air between the oppressive 1950s and the crude infantilism of the Blockbusters that would dominate for decades to come. A golden decade.

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Globalisation is colonialism without the maintenance costs.