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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Related But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whet... EDDIE HUANG In human life, economics precedes politics or culture. PARK GEUN-HYE One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They... CHRIS JORDAN Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture. EMILY BROWNING How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that ha... BUSTA RHYMES Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the cultu... ADAM MANSBACH The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug cu... BOB SPITZ If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon. CHASKE SPENCER When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, an... FRED ARMISEN There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can'... SAM SHEPARD This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influenc... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concer... VINT CERF What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except... THOMAS SOWELL I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring... DANA SCHUTZ The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture. MARC NEWSON There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses c... JESSICA WILLIAMS That's a good sign for a movie: When it becomes part of the lexicon and pop culture for an entir... ROB RIGGLE The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a ... Q'ORIANKA KILCHER Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and... STEPHEN J. DUBNER I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture... SHERMAN ALEXIE I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that ... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horro... SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON At Under Armour, we've created a very strong culture, a culture that first and foremost is built... KEVIN PLANK I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisem... DAMIAN LOEB I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality... CHARLES M. BLOW I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint ... KAREN O There are good things in every culture and respecting a culture must only mean respecting the good t... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. W... HANNA ROSIN Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we... AVA DUVERNAY Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that t... TOM SHADYAC American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so ma... EUGENE H. PETERSON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, rom... AASIF MANDVI I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the ma... PARKER PALMER I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who thi... PARMINDER NAGRA Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
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to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's ... RORY STEWART It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under e... MIKE HUCKABEE Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a pro... SUFJAN STEVENS I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's no... SALMA HAYEK There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has a... MARK KELLY I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own lif... ZHANG ZIYI
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