"We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy.""
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"I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome."
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"Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"
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"It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes."
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"We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more."
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"The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing."
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"Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life."
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"It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate."
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"Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being."
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"I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture."
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"Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government."
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"I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations."
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"Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core competencies. Get the best. Outside the core competencies, hire people that fit your culture but are cheap."
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"If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity."
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"In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing."
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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past"
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"Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?"
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood."
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