Culture Quotes · Page 165

I always wanted to be a Freshman because XXL is really important in the history of hip-hop. It embodies the culture.

— Cordae

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing - that's what I'm trying to say.

— Jens Lekman

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

— Martin Yan

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

— George Meyer

Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

— Terence McKenna

Tradition means nothing. It's about what you do tomorrow as a football club, not what you did yesterday.

— Jimmy Hill

If citizen is legally forced to recognize the sovereignty of the state - there cannot be any speech about freedom.

— Ilkin Santak

The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture…

— Edwin Schlossberg

“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary…

— Vilém Flusser

All of our lives are enriched by our culture, from blockbuster films, best-selling video games, independent music, and internationally-renowned museums and art…

— Luciana Berger

Understand tipping culture. Whereas Americans tip 15-20% when dining out, most European countries don't tip, as a service charge is typically included…

— Gillian Tans

It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass…

— Amy Winehouse

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion…

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea .…

— Deborah Tannen

“To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.”

— Greg Carlson

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made…

— Henry Miller

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest…

— Horace Mann

“This is the tale of Magic Alex, the man who was everywhere: with Leonard Cohen in Hydra; in Crete with Joni Mitchell;…

— Harry F. MacDonald

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You…

— Terence McKenna

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable,…

— Justin Sane

At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,…

— Oswald Spengler

Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art,…

— Anonymous

Intuitive seeming is in my view an attraction to assent based on nothing more than understanding of the content that upon consideration…

— Ernest Sosa

I ran to represent Southern California on the Board of Equalization to change the culture at the state's most-comprehensive tax agency.

— Michelle Steel

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

— George Bernard Shaw

I think in L.A., every night they're going out somewhere. So you have this culture of dressing up.

— Jenny Packham

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

— Herbert Read

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I…

— Margaret Drabble

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

— Betty Comden

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

— Kanye West

New Orleans, Louisiana is nothing but culture, music and fashion. That's what it is. It's in my blood forever.

— Kelly Oubre, Jr

Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.

— Alex Grey

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

— Lisa Ling

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

— Basil Bunting

“Our people don’t have one look, one background, one culture,” says Erik. “The common thread is they are themselves. They are genuine.”

— Robert Spector

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

— Bennett Miller

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

— William S. Lind

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

— Jess Row

For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I…

— Chris Paul