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"I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture."
"There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art."
"Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way. I never found this oppression of religion and that, but I did enjoy growing up in a culture that didn't need to be rational all of the time."
"The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy."
"I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school."
"Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets."
"thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading."
"Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture."
"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness."
"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."
"Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque."
"The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging works of literature. Works of literature that in the United States would sell only a few thousand copies, if they managed to find a publisher at all. The success of these texts in Spain or Italy or wherever contributes to a kind of national conversation that we're perhaps not having here in the U.S."
"I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism."
"In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities."
"Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it."
"The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture."
"In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science."
"I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women."
"Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things."
"The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum."
