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If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds. — David McCullough

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture. — Amy Tan

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. — Michael J. Findley

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. — Jean Shepherd

People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet. — Rick Remender

American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial. — Thomm Quackenbush

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper

Little in American culture, politics, or business encourages the institutionalization of a collective employee voice. — Nelson Lichtenstein

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that. — Steve Stoute

I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist. — Terry Crews

The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness — J. Rufus Fears

The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward — Michael Chabon

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

American writers were still content to describe an ironic culture when they should be showing the way out. — D.T. Max

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay. — Jonathan Cain

American music culture is black culture. — Yelawolf

The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history. — Alysia Abbott

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K. — Lauren Greenfield

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. — Marcus Buckingham

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly. — Mara Brock Akil

Don't you ever just think of yourself as American? — Sabrina Vourvoulias

Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities. — J. Richard Singleton

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture. — Tabitha Soren

I was an American girl; I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical. — Sara Novic

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all. — Prince Andrew

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. — John Cheever

Now, however, the educational system has become the weapon of choice for modern liberals in their project of dismantling American culture. — Robert Bork

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. — Henry Louis Gates

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever. — Mark McGrath

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. — Sven Birkerts

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture. — Jess Row

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in. — Jonathan Haidt

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world. — Yael Stone

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? — Anthony Bourdain

Hatred of popular culture was to define a generation of American intellectuals and their claim to a superior sensibility. — Anonymous

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day. — Rudyard Kipling

With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West. — Jay Kristoff

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable. — Jess Row

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. — Robert Crumb

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture. — Frank Sinatra

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

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled. — Colin Quinn

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black. — Keegan-Michael Key

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture. — Jamaica Kincaid

'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it. — Thomas Bangalter

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

My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it's not for me. — Stephanie Sigman

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. — Jess Row

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current ... — Henry Giroux

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life. — Helen Caldicott

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope. — Audre Lorde

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me. — Jacki Weaver

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large. — Martin Yan

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great. — David Platt

Crockery has been withdrawn from American culture below a certain level. — Don Watson

What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession. — Pippa Middleton

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it. — Glenn Greenwald

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming
American. — Luc Sante

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. — Leslie Fiedler

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. — Tommy Lee Jones

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. — Camille Paglia

It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one. — Rush Limbaugh

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy, I'm a typical American waist deep in this violent culture. — Henry Rollins

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie. — Brian Spellman

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture
and American culture has triumphed. — Alan Wolfe

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta

most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days. — Jim Dodge

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place. — Assata Shakur

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex. — Phil Klay

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. — Paul Robeson

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. — John Hodgman

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems. — Saul Williams

That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason. — NoViolet Bulawayo

It's deeply un-American, you know, not to make small talk. It's a very important part of the culture of this country. — Anonymous

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore. — M.I.A.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. — Randall Robinson

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. — Saul Bellow

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

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. — Daryl Hall

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. — Sherman Alexie

We are an impatient culture and an impatient electorate. — Dick Couch

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction. — Tony Kushner

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond. — Lester Bangs

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. — CM Punk

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. — John Podhoretz

In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe. — Tatanka

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

< ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture. — David Brion Davis

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture. — Gabe Polsky

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

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God? — Richard Stearns

I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture. — Vincent Cassel

It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker. — Trevanian

I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles. — J. Richard Singleton