"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."

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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"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, Canadian Author

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."

Acceptance

"Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express."

Doubt

"The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis."

God

"We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit."

Habit

"A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever."

Friendship

"In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country."

Nation

"I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life."

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"Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep."

People

"Killing is the payoff of war."

War

"I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere."

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