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'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Another Apart Class Culture Ethnic Fact Group History In Fact Just Lower Only Other Redneck Same Social Standing Strata Term Tied Up Wasp Way Which Who Word

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It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Acceptable Approach Considered Culture May Normal Often Our Perfect See Strangers Thing Who Why

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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Collective Culture Gift God Narcissist Society World

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My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.

~Christopher Mcculloch

Topics: Being Culture Enthusiastic Generation Genuine Hard Hard Time Irony Lot My Generation Our Time

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'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.

~Christopher Mcculloch

Topics: Anything Anything Else Bandwagon Calculated Character Culture Earnest Else Expressions Gay Get Got Green Kind Lantern Like Little Make Me Seems Then

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I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

Topics: Culture Disrespectful Guns Indifferent Learn Power Respect Saying Should Terrified

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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

~Christopher Nolan

Topics: Anything Anything Else Batman Clearly Culture Does Else Fill Gap Greek Greek Mythology Job Me Modern Most Mythology Pop Pop Culture Psyche Really Role Seriously Similar Superheroes Taken Terms

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It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Am American American Culture Culture English Flatten Had Hell Like Those Used Very Voice Work I Am

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When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

~Christopher Poole

Topics: Culture Days Factory Old Old Days Sausage Think

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For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.

~Christopher Poole

Topics: Actually Culture Go Hang House How Just Lot Magic Out People Really See Seeing Share Shift Threads Thrill Time Tree Unravel Unwind You Zone

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