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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
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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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"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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"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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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."
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"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
Choice
"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
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"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
Creativity
"We all look for lost time."
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"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."
Design
"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
Design
"There's always some kind of hidden logic."
Logic
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
Cultural
"Italy is a divided country without a center."
Nation
"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
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