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You? You can't believe this? I'm the one who has to go to Artemis to save your ass. She was freaking out over Zarek, now how the hell do I explain to her that Mr. Cool-Calm-and-Collected was doing his impression of Spider Man in a bar loaded with tourists and ended up as the main feature on Tokyo news as what's wrong with American culture? Question. How many rules did you break in less than a minute? (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
- Saul Bellow

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
- Anthony Bourdain

The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward
- Michael Chabon

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

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
- Johnny Depp

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

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

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

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.
- David Guetta

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.
- Bill Hicks

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'
- Ryan Hurst

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

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
- Tommy Lee Jones

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
- James Lafferty

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

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror
- Alasdair C Macintyre

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
- David Mccullough

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

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
- Lance Morrow

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

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

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
- Mitt Romney

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

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
- Buffy Saintemarie

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

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
- David Sedaris

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
- Yahoo Serious

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
- Tavis Smiley

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
- Tabitha Soren

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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