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If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

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By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. ↗

— Richard Russo

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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. ↗

— Spike Lee

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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

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What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet. ↗

— James T. Walsh

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