Culture Quotes · Page 109

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

— Sadiq Khan

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

— Chris Grayling

I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.

— Eugene Simon

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

— Shakti Gawain

Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.

— Sharad Devarajan

There are two ways to improve your service, and yourself: maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.

— Ron Kaufman

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

— Ben Nicholson

The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

— Carmen Ejogo

The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture…

— Lynn Coady

There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but…

— Werner Herzog

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

— Jonathan Sacks

Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…

— Ralph Ellison

For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy.…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

— Bocafloja

We can be inspired by and renew our ancient culture of sustainable design and living. Why not set standards for producers and…

— Rohini Nilekani

The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our…

— Robert A. M. Stern

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed…

— Jimmy Iovine

“Culture as infrastructure describes the culture and cultural organizations that allow stakeholders to contest norms’ interpretations and adapt informal constraints in line…

— Marvin Cheung

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all…

— Aldous Huxley

Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets…

— Alex Kendrick

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy…

— Henry Giroux

But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to…

— Ken Wilber

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than…

— Oscar Wilde

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

— Richard Attias

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

— Eric Kripke

Religion is an important part of life and culture in Brazil, very important to us as Brazilians.

— Oscar

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

— Lenny Kravitz

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody…

— Philip Treacy

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

— Rachel Dolezal

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

— Yo-Yo Ma

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

— Derrick Jensen

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

— Mark Crispin Miller

“Hug everyone, love everyone - that's the only tradition that can stop the fall of humankind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

— Vikas Khanna

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

— Howard Thompson

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

— Samuel Smiles

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

— Ruth Benedict

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

— Bobby Flay