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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
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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."
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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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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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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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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."
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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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"I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs."
Business
"Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask."
People
"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
Creativity
"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
Cultural
"The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed."
People
"What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it."
Nothing
"In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country."
Nation
"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
"Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio."
Cure
"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."
Enemy
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