"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy."

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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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"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."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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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."

J. M. Coetzee, South African Author

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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"I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment."

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"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."

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"I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world."

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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."

"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

"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."

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy."

"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."

"I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those."

"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."

"I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment."

"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."

"I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world."