"America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America."

-- Timothy Garton Ash

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“Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting.”
“I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.”
“Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.”
“You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.”
“Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.”
“I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.”
“If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.”
“I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.”

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