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If you'd come to me in 2012, when the last presidential election was raging and we were cooking up ever more complicated ways to monetize Facebook data, and told me that Russian agents in the Kremlin's employ would be buying Facebook ads to subvert American democracy, I'd have asked where your tin-foil hat was.

~Antonio Garcia Martinez

Topics: Ads Agents American Asked Buying Come Complicated Cooking Data Democracy Election Employ Ever Facebook Hat Last Me More Presidential Presidential Election Raging Russian Up Ways Were Where Would You Your

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Cubans can be as conversant as any Netflix-and-chill American about popular shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Black Mirror', and they drop allusions to the 'Lannisters' and 'Omar Little' constantly.

~Antonio Garcia Martinez

Topics: About American Any Black Cards Constantly Cuban Drop House House Of Cards Like Little Mirror Popular Shows

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I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen.

~Antonio Villaraigosa

Topics: America American American Dream Angeles City Come Corner Dream Earth Every Happen Here Hope Los Los Angeles Make People Promise Say Where

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Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don't sing to you. I've got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, 'Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.'

~Antony Starr

Topics: American Burning Come Feeling Flame Give God Got Honest Ignite Many Oftentimes Oh Oh God Part Pilot Read Really Scripts Sing Them Through To Be Honest Want Work You

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Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Absorb Abstinence American American Culture Beauty Capture Characters Culture Girl How Hypocrisy Imagery Instance Like Me Modesty Perfect Perversion Preaching Seem Teenagers While Youth

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My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: American Among Anybody Because Become Canon Columbia Columbia University Faculty Father Faulkner Find First Forties Generation He His Lit Look Master Oversee Part Read Thesis University William Writers Wrote

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My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right.

~Anushka Sharma

Topics: American Character Comedy Confronted Curb David Enthusiasm Friends Instead Larry Main Main Character Me Mean Moody Must Neurotic Once Remind Right Series Sunny Them Thing Thought Were Your

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I'm an American TV show buff. I can watch them nonstop for days.

~Anushka Sharma

Topics: American Buff Days Nonstop Show Them Tv Tv Show Watch I Can

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An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

~Anwar Robinson

Topics: American American Idol Change How Idol Knows Lives Music People Someone Through Who

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Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

~Apolo Ohno

Topics: Achieve American American History Any Champions Continually Create Creating Dreams Face Feel Forward Help Help Others History How Impact Know Lives Make Mindset Most None Olympian Olympic Only Others Own Pay People Positive Positive Impact Pressure Pressures Themselves Those Winter Within I Feel

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