Culture Quotes · Page 125

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

— Anonymous

I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant…

— Anoushka Shankar

I love the whole Punjabi culture as I have seen it very closely in Delhi in my growing up years.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

I love being a Duke student, and continuing to be part of the university culture is something I don't take for granted.

— Grayson Allen

We immigrated when I was 3 1/2 years old, to Toronto. But I'm still very, very close to my culture and -…

— Mena Massoud

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

— Tricia Griffith

“Kati ya nchi yako na serikali yako ni kitu gani unakipenda zaidi? Ipende zaidi nchi yako, kuliko serikali yako!”

— Enock Maregesi

It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a…

— Azim Premji

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while…

— David Foster Wallace

There's a great work culture at Nadiadwala Grandson. It's true that I'm heading the organization, but there are some brilliant minds here.…

— Sajid Nadiadwala

“But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the…

— Sydney J. Harris

Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to,…

— George Lopez

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who…

— Ben Goldacre

People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure,…

— Youssou N'Dour

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to…

— T.C. Boyle

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created…

— Steven C. Hayes

It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I've been to Vietnam and mainland China. Even though the Vietnamese are seemingly poor, they always stop in front of red traffic…

— Ko Wen-je

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.…

— Johan Huizinga

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United…

— Charles Lemert

People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate…

— Terence McKenna

Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these…

— Terence McKenna

We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

— Bob Taft

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

— David Oyelowo

“On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.”

— Ignazio Silone

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

— Eckhart Tolle

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

— Helen Caldicott

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

— Martin Amis

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

— RuPaul

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the…

— Stephen D. Livesday

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

— Peter Farb

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

— Joseph Brodsky

Colombian culture has a lot of music - it's in our blood; it's in our DNA.

— J Balvin

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

— Wole Soyinka

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

— John Lydon

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

— John Henry Cox

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

— P. J. O'Rourke