Culture Quotes · Page 184

I enjoy films like 'American Beauty' and want to do similar films that reflect our culture.

— Abhay Deol

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

— Tom Hoover

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

— Viggo Mortensen

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

— David Platt

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

— Brian Aldiss

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural…

— Ted Cruz

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

— Noam Chomsky

I know in our mainstream culture, the loudest voices and the most shocking voices are the ones that get the noise.

— Sarah Drew

A workplace culture where fathers are encouraged to take paternity leave would result in stronger families, a more equal labour market and…

— David Lammy

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern…

— Anonymous

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is…

— Michael Ignatieff

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are…

— Kevin Eubanks

We call people every part of our body as an insult. That's gotta tell you something about the way we view our…

— Peaches

I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems…

— Chris Martin

That's what I love about Australia: we can do things the way we want to do them, because that's the way our…

— Adam Goodes

It seems to me that we make a terrible mistake in talking about Trump as some kind of essence of evil. Trump…

— Henry Giroux

Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation…

— Patrick Holford

When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

America remains the freest, most powerful and most prosperous nation in all the world, and yet, we face significant challenges. Among these…

— Mike Johnson

“Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and transcend death, every culture must provide its members with an…

— Ernest Becker

Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being…

— Ken Wilber

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of…

— George Packer

The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

— Kenya Barris

I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture.

— Minoru Mori

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

— LeVar Burton

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

— Alan Wolfe

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

— Mao Zedong

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to…

— Robyn Davidson

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to…

— Adam McKay

Competition is one click away. Innovation happens everywhere... you better have a culture asking for a voice.

— Ruth Porat

Having a few companies controlling everything we read, see or hear is destroying our culture.

— Lawrence Blume

Every culture is different and it's easy to adopt perspectives depicted via various mediums.

— Phaedra Parks

Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

— Judy Grahn

Our message has always transcended borders and cultures and is central to who we are as a brand.

— Emily Weiss

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the…

— John Gresham Machen

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.

— Andy Dunn

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

— Inga Muscio

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

— Richard Dawkins