Culture Quotes · Page 111

“Cultivate a culture of obedience; subsequently respect, order, determination, commitment and good productivity will follow.”

— Wayne Chirisa

I identify myself with the male gaze, I grew up with the male gaze, I've been excited by the male gaze. I'm…

— Celine Sciamma

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

— Florence King

I feel like the music should be a reflection of the culture and the world we're living in.

— Naughty Boy

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets…

— Lester Bangs

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

— Amma Asante

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

— Simone Weil

The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

— Ron Kaufman

“Most of us tend to underestimate the degree to which we ourselves are a product of culture. It's much easier to see…

— David Livermore

The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates…

— Brian Chesky

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

— Alfred Doblin

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down…

— Peter Kreeft

In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java,…

— Michelle Stuart

Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

So much has changed about the culture, it's so much more about money and celebrity. Celebrity not in the sense of people…

— Patricia Bosworth

Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be…

— Roisin Murphy

I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary…

— Per Petterson

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything…

— Muriel Rukeyser

One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo…

— Viggo Mortensen

The NBA is a culture shock for college kids, and even more so for kids from another country. The NBA is a…

— Austin Ainge

Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of…

— Karan Mahajan

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy…

— Wade Davis

What inspires me is the power of human potential... the human potential to evolve in our lives, and for profound healing. It's…

— Brad Willis

If you understand it from an ecological or sustainability perspective, agriculture is the primary way we meet most of our needs, and…

— David Holmgren

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

— Ibn Warraq

Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

— Victor Koo

It is the responsibility of all of us to create a culture that encourages and enables fathers to spend more time with…

— David Lammy

Our organisation and culture is based on professionalism and values. I think my children reflect both.

— Ajay Piramal

Coming from the sports world, I'm interested in the secrets of team culture and chemistry.

— Harrison Barnes

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

— Marshall McLuhan

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

— Natalie Cole

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

— Solange Knowles

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

— John F. Kennedy

The 'Crossfire' demographic is all-encompassing. Age, gender, religion, culture... it doesn't matter.

— Sylvia Day

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China's culture.

— Bill Vaughan

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

— Noel Clarke

I'll be quite honest, New Japan rejuvenated my love for wrestling and the wrestling culture.

— Shelton Benjamin

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

— Henry Giroux

“We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.”

— Neil Postman

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

— Michael Pollan