American Culture Quotes - Page 3

• I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

  Muhammad Ali

  White, Culture, Way

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

  Garth Nix

  Book, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I was Justin Timberlake personal stylist for years, so I went to his video shoots and his gigs with Madonna, and I did it very hands-on. It was a great way to experience and understand that part of American culture.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• American culture is kind of an international culture, isn't it? British culture is a bit more unique. I think funny things are sort of funny around the world, really.

  David Walliams

  Unique, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We had grown up listening to reggae music in our communities. People were enjoying what we were doing with out music - we didn't have to work to sell it to them.

  Jazzie B

  People, Sick, Community

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• In Germany there's something about rock music much more political than it really is - like everything you were doing was an indictment of the American culture. I read an interview with one of the members of Sebadoh. He was saying he had just got back from touring Germany for the first time in five years or whatever, and one of the interviewers asked him, "Why aren't you still relevant?"

  John Flansburgh

  Political, Culture, Rock Music

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.

  Reid Hoffman

  Successful, People, Empowerment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 'Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of American culture and society,' and I'm sure in politics, you would have to acknowledge that it has worked.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Culture, Acknowledge

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Media hosts just talk about Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher and again miss the point. I was talking about AMERICAN culture, ladies and gentlemen. As I pointed out, if Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir, by the way, she didn't care, and Margaret Thatcher didn't care how she look like. If Margaret Thatcher were running for president today, as she was when she was the Iron Lady, we wouldn't have her mom doing television commercials telling us how wonderful she was when she was a kid and how nice she is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mom, Running, Nice

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature to children. That judgment has got to be based on quality rather than quantity. It's the same old problem that continually plagues American culture. I would rather have children playing their own games out of doors in the sunlight than getting the misrepresentation of literature as given by Walt Disney.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• If we have an element of Americans here that reject western civilization, and that's a big element, that reject western civilization, then what have we? This is an effort on the left I think to break down the American civilization and the American culture and turn it into something entirely different.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Effort, Different

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American culture. Maybe if I want to write a Western enough I should try to overcome that fear, but I'll certainly feel like I'm trespassing. I feel that that is so much a part of American foundation myth, it's part of the myth of America, the American vision of what America is, which people have glorified and then challenged and then vilified.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Writing, People, Vision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.

  George Harrar

  Comforting, Culture, Morality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the things which separates British and American culture is the reverence for the flag in American culture.

  Mark Lawson

  Culture, Reverence

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Culture, Economy

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• The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the decline of respect for rational scientific thinking. People seem to think that we are ruled by the scientific method and that we overvalue reason. If there was ever a period when we overvalued reason, I think that it was probably extremely brief. What I see now is a great deal of superstition, as much superstition as there has ever been. There are probably more people who believe in guardian angels than who understand the law of gravity.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

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• To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Thinking, White, Mainstream Culture

  "Key & Peele: 'That’s what Obama should say'". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 7, 2012.

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• In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

  Winona LaDuke

  Integrity, Native American, Government

  Winona LaDuke (2016). “Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming”, p.10, Haymarket Books

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• The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, New York, Book

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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• The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

  Ishmael Reed

  Education, Race, African American

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.

  Marshall Fishwick

  Anxiety, Age, Twists

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• In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Fads

  Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

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• Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The business class is combined with the evangelicals. And I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ. So they are very happy about what we're doing to Iraq - and the menace we present now for Syria and for Iran - because they think that the apocalypse is an important thing to get into so that they can see vindicated their most literal interpretation of the Bible.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Important

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• If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of rules than the wider world, how do we deal with putting these ideas into the brains of teenagers who have been schooled in the disgusting gender norms of our American culture for the previous eighteen years? This is the essential conundrum. Can we teach these relatively young dogs new tricks? I believe that we can.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Dog, Teenager, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Technology, Emotional, Thinking

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