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Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.
Roger Scruton
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I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
Kurt Russell
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[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.
Vito Acconci
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It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object
Ross Lovegrove
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Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.
Rick Ross
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
Pat Conroy
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A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
Bruce Campbell
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Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.
Robert M. Sapolsky
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A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
Max Weber
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Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.
Nick Laird
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Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.
Joe Rogan
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Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
Dennis Cooper
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There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
Gary Numan
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The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader.
Rakesh Khurana
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The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.
Ayn Rand
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It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.
Amy Sedaris
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Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.
Paul Buchheit
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All culture must have arisen from cult.
Alan Moore
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To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
Julien Benda
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I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!
Pia Zadora
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A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.
Bill Maher
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I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.
Lou Reed
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I'm not the one calling Trumpists the equivalent of a cult. The Drive-Bys, some of them do, as a means of not having to deal with you seriously.
Rush Limbaugh
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I think cults never stop being interesting and I'm intrigued by how we all do a tiny bit of submitting to a larger group - and how they can sneak up on you.
Danzy Senna
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As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'
Troy Duffy
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I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!
Leighton Meester
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Maybe radicalization is much more of a problem these days than cult participation. They're pretty close to each other. But in order to understand why someone would sign onto something like this, you have to see the good.
Bruce Miller
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When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
Sean Durkin
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I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?
Joss Whedon
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
Winona Ryder