Quotes with culture

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  • Pat Buchanan Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Bill Condon Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Aldous Huxley Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Kruger Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Erich Fromm Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
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  • Benazir Bhutto Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Edith Wharton Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bill Walton Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • James Kelman My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
    (1994)
    James Kelman
    Scottish writer (1946 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Busta Rhymes My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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