"There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood."
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"One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world."
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"The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness."
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"On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture."
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"The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture."
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"I'm really excited about breaking new acts. While I'm trying to preserve the culture and make sure I fight for the acts that the major labels have thrown away, you can't throw away Musiq Soulchild, Kelly Price and Jon B."
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"I feel that rich women are soft targets.... There's a lot of legitimate resentment and anger about inequality in our culture, about money... I feel like a lot of the anger about income disparity is aimed not at wealthy men, but at wealthy women."
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"Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core."
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"Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs."
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"Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed."
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"We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed."
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"We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at."
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"A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture."
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"Culture opens the sense of beauty."
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"England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them."
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"Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success."
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"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body."
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"Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative."
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"As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form."
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"The highest end of government is the culture of men."
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