When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.
I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I'm pretty sure New York is the best city in the world - at least for an American guy like me.
... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.'
Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
Lamar, I don’t know what you smoke down there in Tennessee.
I don't think there's anyone who is saying a life of a child in Idaho or Iowa means less than someone on the other side of the border.
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
I think that racism has gotten more subtle, and it's not even racism anymore: it's placism. Like where you live or whether you went to community college or Harvard, and it exists within the race.
It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
The people who typically tell the story of what's going on in America are from the booming parts of America. The presentation of issues is colored by that.
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.
These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.
The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.
The trouble with Northern liberals is that they want their arses kissed all the time … but I can’t spend all my time doing it.
The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.
Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?
