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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress."
View quotes by Anatole Broyard

When asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence: You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
View quotes by Dorothy Parker

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
View quotes by Harold Rosenberg

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
View quotes by Daniel Dennett

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinley

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone. (Xingu and Other Stories 1916)
View quotes by Edith Wharton

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
View quotes by Robert Hughes

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
View quotes by Katherine Dunn

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago
View quotes by Terry Wogan

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
View quotes by Mary Landrieu

English culture has always allowed room for the freedom to express, especially through fashion, and the punk era has remained a strong influence on British attitudes, art and music.
View quotes by Shaun Leane

The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
View quotes by Robert Andrews

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
View quotes by Ayn Rand

This England side [2004-5] have a different feel to them. They have a bit of a winning habit and winning culture which they haven't had for a while.
View quotes by Ricky Ponting

I don't feel integrated into English life at all. We cannot speak English, we don't know the culture and we are scared of appearing rude.
View quotes by Sun Jihai

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
View quotes by Arthur Miller

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music
View quotes by Billy Joel

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
View quotes by Camille Paglia

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