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• Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don’t come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.

  David Dinkins

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Cultural

• We’ve got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide – and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religions, Cultural, Issues

• We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco’s cultural vitality.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Cultural, Vitality

• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco’s art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cultural, Tourism

• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  Dan Quayle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cultural

• A society that has made “nostalgia” a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

  Christopher Lasch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Exchange, Cultural

• If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

  Tags in Curators, Cultural, Elites

• 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

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  Tags in Time, Cultural

• The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

  Emma Bonino

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  Tags in Political, Cultural

• My family… always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Topics in Family, Influence

  Tags in Cultural

• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we’d just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen – we’re such an amazing race.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Media, Cultural, Tribe, Force, Australian

• We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

  Thom Mayne

  Tags in Cultural, Fabricated

• Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

  Alex Campbell

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Lesser, Economic, Canadians, Cultural, Canada

• So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

  Russell Banks

  Tags in Divided, Cultural, Dividing

• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Commercial, Cultural

• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Cultural, England, Dignity, Planet, Apply, Freedom, Personal, Inheritance

• The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cultural, Idea

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cultural, Agreed, Literary

• It’s one of the cultural events. They give out Olympic medals. There will be eight blocks of ice and 18 hours to compete.

  Aaron Costic

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  Tags in Cultural, Olympic

• Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they’re cultural?

  Newt Gingrich

  Tags in Cultural, Recent