Culture Quotes · Page 128

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.

— Russell Simmons

I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.

— Maripol

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

— Jeffrey Zaslow

It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

— Olivier Martinez

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in…

— Mara Brock Akil

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

— Fran Lebowitz

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.

— Stefan Sagmeister

NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.

— Frank Deford

Pottery was what sandal-wearing, windchime-lovers did. Art is sensitive to areas of visual culture that havent yet been colonised by the art…

— Grayson Perry

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality…

— Matthew Fox

I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture…

— Terence McKenna

Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but…

— David Means

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become…

— Oscar Wilde

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures;…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and…

— Anonymous

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to…

— Guy Claxton

I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It…

— Laura Marling

“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women…

— Naomi Wolf

Leaders who understand the importance of the intangible elements contributing to workplace culture become sensitive to what makes their organization truly special.…

— Punit Renjen

“...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new ideas. They…

— Jonah Lehrer

The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of…

— Jules Feiffer

You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the…

— Rabih Alameddine

“Pakistan is merely another manifestation of a cultural unit demanding freedom for the growth of its own distinctive culture.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

— Lawrence Lessig

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place.

— Cote de Pablo

I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.

— Justin Simien

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

— Edward Bellamy

The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer…

— Matthew Arnold

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

— St. Vincent

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

— Louis Kronenberger

I've always loved to sing in Spanish. To me, it's just my culture. It's what I am; I'm Latina.

— Paula DeAnda

Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts.

— Ron Kaufman

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

— Mark Steyn

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

— Steve Sabol

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

— Seth Godin

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

— Terence McKenna