“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.” MadeSelfSometimesLastsAmericaChoicesCultureSinCitiesFantasyGrewComfortTasteApproachPicksHollywoodMade ItDeceptionFrontiersAmerican CultureVegasLas VegasVisionariesSelf DeceptionAmbiguousReinventionQuintessentialProminencePraguePeoria Author:Hal Rothman
“Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.” KidsChoicesParentInfluenceGrewGrew UpCollections Author:Ryan Lewis
“I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.” AmericaChoicesGrewGrew UpInjusticeFreedom Of Choice Author:Zainab Salbi
“I grew up in Monaco, and in that environment going into the financial sector was the obvious choice.” ChoicesEnvironmentGrewGrew UpFinancialObviousMonaco Author:Herve Falciani
“As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.” GivingIdeasSeemsFormMotherChoicesSonGrewGrew UpSlaverySalvationFeministCompulsionGrind Author:Tom Hodgkinson