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My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.
Simon Winchester

Wife, Give, Fashion

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Movies, Country, America

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
Shawn Wayans

Keep, Joke, Everybody

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.
John P. Kotter

Change, Different, Big

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
Ruth Benedict

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
Ruth Benedict

Today, Study, Learn

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce

Life, Love, Death

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
Wendell Pierce

Hope, Society, Through

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
Wendell Pierce

Life, Music, Marriage

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
Eleanor Clift

Women, Today, Different

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
Preet Bharara

Leadership, History, Integrity

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
Robert E. Howard

Education, Art, Writing

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
Claudio Reyna

Sports, Football, Basketball

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
John Perkins

Money, Power, Sex

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.
Craig Charles

Nothing, Why, Training

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.
Chad Kroeger

End, Enjoy, Opposite

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
Phillip Noyce

Nature, Children, Important

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?
Rick Santelli

Society, America, Energy

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
Graham Joyce

Poetry, Made, Fashion

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.
Graham Joyce

Deep, Rich, Books

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
Pratibha Patil

Education, Happiness, Good

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
George Grosz

Against, Themselves, Among

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
George Grosz

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Michael Lewis

Baseball, Speak, Actually

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
David Strathairn

Learn, Tell, Film

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
Arlie Russell Hochschild

Love, Marriage, Government

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
John M. Ford

Rather, Story, Adventure

Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
James E. Rogers

Research, Economy, Build

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
John McLaughlin

Universal, Belong, Rhythm

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.
John McLaughlin

Mind, Spirit, Studying

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