Cultural Quotes · Page 6

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

— Natasha Trethewey

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

— Jackie Chan

I'm a big cultural pusher when it comes to hip-hop, disco music, comedy, all that stuff that I love.

— Deon Cole

“Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?”

— Oakley Hall

Each generation passes down its knowledge to the next, providing an bridge to the past & each oth. We must preserve cultural diversity!

— Anonymous

The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.

— Howard Gardner

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

— Ai Weiwei

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

— Giles Foden

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences,…

— Muhammad Yunus

In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed…

— Ksenia Solo

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions…

— Ravi Zacharias

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with…

— Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our…

— Lyor Cohen

You can teach someone with basic smarts to be smarter; you can't teach cultural fit or personality. But you also want someone…

— Mellody Hobson

Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder,…

— Alice Dreger

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people…

— Robert Wilson

I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And…

— Carl Weathers

The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is…

— Woody Allen

Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to…

— Simon Schama

Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and…

— Johan Huizinga

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain…

— Eric S. Raymond

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This…

— Judith Butler

I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which…

— Jeb Bush

Part of me wanted to disappear into a cave in India, and I did end up going on retreats there, but, don't…

— Linus Roache

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

— Kanye West

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are…

— David Harsanyi

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

— Adam McKay

MTV was just such a big pop cultural phenomenon, and I was lucky to be part of it.

— Tawny Kitaen

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

— Andrew Davies

Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

— Annette Bening

While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.

— Magnus Larsson

“It is for this reason that there is no “natural way of life” for humans. There are only cultural choices.”

— FastReads

Voters do not choose candidates because of their ideological fit. They choose them because of their cultural fit.

— Krystal Ball

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

— J. William Fulbright

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

— Brian Fallon

It's common for cultural shifts to start with young, urban adopters before going mainstream.

— Lynn Jurich

The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

— Mike Huckabee

There's no such thing as being a cultural Jew. You're religious or you're not.

— Nathan Englander

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

— Karen Russell