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Every exploration is an appropriation.
Roland Barthes / Philosopher
Appropriation
Exploration
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The meaning lies in the appropriation.
Soren Kierkegaard / Philosopher
Appropriation
Lying
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Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.
Pat Mitchell / Broadcaster
Appropriation
Cutting
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Appropriation
Cultural
Greeks
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The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
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Committees
Senate
Spending
Committee
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The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.
Richard Cohen /
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Fence
Concept
Cultural
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What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.
Jain /
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Always Culture People
Culture People Always
Mix
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Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.
Jain /
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Problem
Africa
Life My Life Big
Big Problem
Cultural
Invent
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Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
Deborah Kass /
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Generations
Language
My Generation
Warhol
Way
Duchamp
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Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
Phyllis Schlafly / Lawyer
Appropriation
Congress
Embrace
Judging
Use
Budget
Judges
Starve
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From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.
Stanley Hauerwas / Theologian
Appropriation
Christianity
Tension
Gospel
Struggled
Sustain
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Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
Charles Krauthammer / Columnist
Appropriation
Civilization
Rise Above
Violence
Above
Rise
Founded
Distinguishes
Sins
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch / Historian
Appropriation
Children
Desire
Lying
Ownership
Appeal
Lie
Possessions
Status
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer / Philosopher
Time
Appropriation
Book
Buying
Mistake
Mistaken
Thing
Also
Books
Buy
Contents
Could
Read
Good Thing
Would
Purchase
Rule
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I am very grateful for the bipartisan support from Congress and their confidence in my leadership of BARDA as reflected in the generous appropriation to BARDA in the CARES 3 Act.
Rick Bright /
Confidence
Leadership
Appropriation
Bipartisan
Congress
Generous
Grateful
Support
Cares
Reflected
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I'm not tied to the news cycle. I can do an episode on cultural appropriation, not on Rachel Dolezal. We might make a joke about her, but that's not going to be the focus of the conversation.
Moshe Kasher / Stand-Up Comedian
Appropriation
Tied
Cycle
Episode
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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
Jerry Saltz / Art Critic
Aesthetic
Appropriation
Decades
New Life
Seventies
Breathed
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The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural practices throughout history.
Franchesca Ramsey /
History
Appropriation
Borrowing
Dominant
Groups
Marginalized
Oppression
Problem
Face
Been
Cultural
Main
Practices
Throughout
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Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Appropriation
Available
Capitalism
Civilisation
Instance
Phases
Pioneers
Plenty
Socialism
Among
Arises
Earlier
Private
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
Earl Blumenauer / U.s. Representative
Appropriation
Broadcasting
Corporations
Majority
Public Radio
Radio
Stations
Accordance
Annual
Corporation
Directly
Vast
Provide
Statutory
Vast Majority
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Karl Jaspers / Psychiatrist
Attitude
Appropriation
Demand
Philosophy
Practice
Real
Theoretical
Studied
Contents
Manner
Texts
Toward
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I remember the Silver Jubilee clearly because we had a fancy dress street party in Sheffield. I dressed up as a Japanese girl with a too-big red kimono - cultural appropriation hadn't been invented in 1977. I was six.
Emily Maitlis /
Appropriation
Fancy
Jubilee
Sheffield
Silver
Dressed
Japanese
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That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
Paul Hawken / Environmentalist
Age
Appropriation
Goods
Including
Information
Information Age
Resources
Transformation
Characterized
Industrial
Production
Services
Systems
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A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
David Shields / Author
Appropriation
Book
Engaging
Focus
Hunger
Lying
Plagiarism
Reality
Writing
Deeply
Lie
Hardly
Major
Permitted
Terms
Topic
Treat
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Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to be black or Asian in America and not necessarily knowing what it's like, that's when everything gets mixed up.
Lexi Underwood /
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Asian
Perspective
Cultural
Writers
Gets
Necessarily
Mixed
Room
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Appropriation is a fact of life; no point in complaining about it. But if that's the way the game's being played, let's do it on both sides. I don't want some white guy making 'A Rage in Harlem III' if I can't do 'The Godfather V' or 'E.T. III.'
Bill Duke / Actor
Appropriation
Both Sides
Complaining
No Point
Sides
Iii
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Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
Jerry Saltz / Art Critic
Art
Advertising
Appropriation
Art World
Chelsea
Gallery
Ideas
International
Objects
Sculpture
Video
Ate
Photographs
Paintings
Ready-Made
Videos
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I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.
Lionel Shriver / Journalist
Appropriation
Backgrounds
Different Backgrounds
Exchanging
Fascinating
Hopeful
Ideas
Passing
Urban
Life I Am People
Aspects
Concept
Cultural
Fad
Practices
Rubbing
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Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing. By that logic, I think by breathing today, we are engaging in cultural appropriation of the first Homo sapiens. And so the only way I will ask you to stop being racist is to suffocate - to stop breathing.
Gad Saad / Scientist
Appropriation
Breathing
Engaging
Homo Sapiens
Logic
Today
Ask
African
Ancestors
Cultural
Engage
Homo
Sapiens
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The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second.
Freddie Wong /
Appropriation
Railroads
World War Ii
Male
White Women
World War
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By importing into the U.K. the divisive politics of anti-racism from America, with its demented campus dramas and neuroses about 'safe spaces', 'micro-aggressions' and 'cultural appropriation,' they make it almost impossible for people of goodwill of all ethnicities to rub along together.
Munira Mirza /
Appropriation
Campus
Demented
Goodwill
Divisive
Dramas
Neuroses
Rub
Spaces
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Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used as an objection to syncretism - the mixing of different thoughts, religions, cultures, and ethnicities that often ends up creating entirely new ones.
Bari Weiss /
Accusation
Appropriation
Mixing
Stealing
Being Used
Cultures
Religions
Entirely
New Ones
Objection
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Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But the way in which the idea was first used was to describe a relationship of dominance and exploitation between a global ruling class and a globally subjugated one.
Ash Sarkar /
Relationship
Appropriation
Class
Cooking
Dominance
Exploitation
Halloween
Ruling
Understanding
Used
Between
Idea
Costume
Cultural
Describe
Global
Wear
Highly
Ruling Class
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I don't think people realize why weaves and the cultural appropriation of black hairstyles are so sensitive. It's deep-rooted. For me, it goes back to high school: I wanted to have the long, flowing hair. So I got a weave. But then I didn't want guys to put their fingers in it - you don't want them to feel your weave.
Kiersey Clemons /
Appropriation
Fingers
Hairstyles
Sensitive
Your Me Long
Black Me Long
Weave
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