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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong

Thought, Progress, Flowers

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
Bob Schieffer

Christmas, Truth, Long

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Joseph Addison

Mind, Single, Lies

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
Martha Plimpton

Character, Joke, Line

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.
Rush Limbaugh

Good, Said, Place

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Swami Sivananda

Religion, Moral, Far

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.
Marshall McLuhan

Art, Happen, Old

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Men, Means

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Education, Health, Money

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong

Enemy, Cannot, Defeat

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
Marilyn Manson

American, Pop, Mockery

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
Simone Weil

Turn, Teachers, Instrument

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
Dan Savage

War, Gay, Political

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
Ang Lee

Yourself, Woman, Put

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
Taylor Hackford

Time, Saying, Ego

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden

Money, Art, Sad

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
Lily Tomlin

Plastic, Skin, Becoming

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Zachary Quinto

Great, Government, Within

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
Dennis Miller

Time, Nothing, Thought

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David Bowie

Work, Thought, Living

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
Theodor Adorno

Industry, Customers, Reactions

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
Henry Louis Gates

Work, Future, Society

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.
Hugh Jackman

Work, Time, War

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
Christopher Hitchens

History, Same, Another

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
Method Man

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Doug Coupland

Experience, School, American

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
Doug Coupland

Future, Find, Gym

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
Michelle Obama

Food, Fun, Problem

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
Carlos Ghosn

Good, Great, Leaving

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