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• The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

  Jil Sander

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  Tags in Designer, Cultural

• It’s ironic that in our culture everyone’s biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

  Dennis Miller

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  Tags in Time, Cultural

• Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can’t get out of?

  Joel C. Rosenberg

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  Tags in Spiral, Cultural

• A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

  Charles Rosen

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  Tags in Cultural, Hearing

• I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject – the cultural and sociological geography – to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

  David Maraniss

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  Tags in Time, Cultural

• Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

  David Hilbert

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Cultural

• Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don’t come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.

  David Dinkins

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Cultural

• America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

  David Alan Grier

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  Tags in Cultural

• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  Dan Quayle

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  Tags in Cultural

• It’s head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn’t want to let it go.

  Dan Stevens

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  Tags in Heart, Feed, Cultural, Intellectual

• The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

  Steven Soderbergh

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  Tags in Cultural

• My family… always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Topics in Family, Influence

  Tags in Cultural

• We’ve got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide – and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

  George Carey

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  Tags in Religions, Cultural, Issues

• Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common love of music, literature and all things cultural.

  Colin Hanks

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  Tags in Music, Friends, Cultural

• The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

  Shirin Ebadi

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  Tags in Cultural, Idea

• My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn’t very into films.

  Gemma Arterton

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Cultural, Films

• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco’s art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  Gavin Newsom

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  Tags in Cultural, Tourism

• We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco’s cultural vitality.

  Gavin Newsom

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  Tags in City, Cultural, Vitality

• A society that has made “nostalgia” a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

  Christopher Lasch

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  Tags in Important, Exchange, Cultural

• Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project.

  Wolfgang Staudte

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  Tags in Cultural