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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: American American Culture Culture Experience High High School North North American School Shared

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I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Am American American Culture Archaeology Convinced Culture Done Enable Far Future History In The Past Light Method More Past Than The History Of Throw Will I Am

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I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

~Etta James

Topics: American American Culture American Music Blues Country Culture Gospel Jazz Just Music One Thing Really Rhythm Rock Rock N Roll Roll Show Thing Those Wanna

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American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Advertising American American Culture Appealing Because Christian Culture Ever Full Had Instincts Intertwined Just Least Lies Materialistic Whole World Worst

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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

~Flea

Topics: Academic American American Culture Become Contemporary Culture Jazz Kind Mark Me Much Through Which

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VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Across American American Culture Beloved Bug Car College Country Culture Drove Freedom Friends Graduated Held Hit Many Most Place Road Through Van Years Youth

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In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

~George Clooney

Topics: About American American Culture Bob Bob Dylan Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Culture Dylan Elements Everybody Great Growing Growing Up Just Movement Protest Rights Rights Movement Song Songs Time Up Were Women

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When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

~George Lois

Topics: About American American Culture Celebrity Cover Covers Culture Did Difference Dummy Feelings Going His Johnson Lap Lot Lyndon Made Sitting War

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