"We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody."
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"The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn."
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"The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures."
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"The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it."
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"I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs."
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"What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous."
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"When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence."
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"Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture."
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"I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else."
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"I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news."
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"You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership."
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"If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it."
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"Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness."
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"New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce."
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"We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too."
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"I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else."
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"The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature."
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"For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages."
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"As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted."
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"I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers."
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