Bryan Burrough Quotes
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
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The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.
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Reality, after all, is what civilization attempts to mitigate.
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Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.
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American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
