I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love t... by Ben Dreyfuss

I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.

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The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

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Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war. by Ben Dreyfuss

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

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Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.

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British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pon... by Ben Dreyfuss

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

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We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.

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Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

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American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

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Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because... by Ben Dreyfuss

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

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