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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
Culture

"I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Culture

"One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Culture

"It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it."

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"I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the culture, make us more reflective, make us more empathetic, make us feel our connectedness in other ways."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Culture

"Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Culture

"So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions."

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Stephen King Author
Culture

"We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based."

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Robin Sharma Author, Speaker
Culture

"A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive."

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Steve Scott Filmmaker
Culture

"In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
Culture

"Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music."

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Karen O Musician
Culture

"I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living."

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Zora Neale Hurston Novelist, Anthropologist
Culture

"So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation."

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