Culture Quotes · Page 193

I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

— Damian Loeb

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.

— John Dos Passos

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.

— M.I.A

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

— Marilyn Manson

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

— Michel de Montaigne

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

— Philip Pullman

“Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.”

— Bryant McGill

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

— Marc Veasey

“Being grounded in your lifelong culture and your personal perspective, you are comfortable with the way you see things and may believe…

— Susan C. Young

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively…

— Joseph Beuys

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Everyone has the ability to be creative. Everyone has the ability to connect one idea with another, to find an idea in…

— Elaine Dundon

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but…

— George Lucas

Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore…

— David Longstreth

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and…

— Harold S. Kushner

'Don't Come to L.A.' is talking about how out-of-towners come to L.A., and they try to start claiming the culture, the lifestyle.…

— YG

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment…

— Muhammad Yunus

“The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather…

— Will Kymlicka

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas…

— Banksy

I think that the United States and the Philippines have always had a good relationship with each other. We were colonized by…

— Pia Wurtzbach

“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the…

— René Girard

Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align…

— David Deida

There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the…

— Parker J. Palmer

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this…

— Maxine Kumin

“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.”

— Sebastian Saviano

As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.

— Justin Simien

“I am glad some people keep petri dishes. It is the only culture they have.”

— McAfee

“The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.”

— Pat Conroy

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

— Stephen Gardiner

You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.

— Lidia Bastianich

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

— Pearl Cleage

Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

— Anonymous

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

— Michael Caine

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.

— Luc Sante

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

— Yahoo Serious

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

— Eugenio Montale

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

— Mark Kurlansky

The right measure is not how many customers you've got, but how closely you hold them.

— Ron Kaufman

I have wide interests outside the professional fighting lifestyle: music, cars, tattooing, clothes, fashion, world culture and so on.

— Dan Hardy

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

— Nursultan Nazarbayev