"Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened."
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"That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in ."
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"If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it."
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"There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture."
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"For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'"
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"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit."
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"Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world."
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"We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat."
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"I foresee death by culture shock."
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"Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music."
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"The UK is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the UK which I love."
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"Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal."
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"I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture."
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"Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout."
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"Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work."
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"Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment."
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"We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture."
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"Cultures are virtual realities made of language."
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"More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read."
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"The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community."
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