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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

Walter Salles

America

Film

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Walter Salles

America

Present

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

Walter Salles

America

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

Pierre Salinger

America

Cities

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Babe Ruth

America

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.