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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

~Alan Ball

Topics: Ads Advertising Am Because Cannot Culture False Gets Interrupted Just Know Phony Show Skip Spoiled Through Watch Where You I Am

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Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Bites Complex Culture Does Feel Infinitely Life Like Live Really Seems Simplify Sound Want Work I Feel I Feel Like

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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

~Alan Ball

Topics: Accept Bad Cling Comfortable Culture Cultures Die Like Mortality Other Too Want Way Well Youth

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It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

~Alan Ball

Topics: American Buy Culture Death Exist Forever Get Happy Hard Ignore Immortality Interested Just Like Marketing Me Pretend Products Stories Which Would You Young

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From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: About Affairs Chicago Clever Contemporary Culture Deceptive Descent Disappearance Fun Girl Gone Good Housewife Lives Lower Make Midwestern Mysterious Nasty Novel Our Own Popular Popular Culture Recognize Stark State Sublime Together Vulgar Writer Young

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: Again Culture Emphasis Far Future Great Lens Light Look Once Our Placed Questions See Tactics Through Too Try Unreasonable Which

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Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Beautiful Care Culture Dedicated France Great Making Manners Take Themselves Women

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The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Culture Difficult Extremely Fuse Germany Greece Same Single Them Unit

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I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

~Alan Hovhaness

Topics: About Although Anything Armenian Beginning Culture Emotions Found Greater Grew Identity Know My Own Older Own Well

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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

~Alan Keyes

Topics: Beings Cannot Children Control Culture Educational Effect Entertainment Freedom Give Human Human Beings Impression Media Our Passions Telling Them Through Trusted

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