Culture Quotes · Page 587

If your customers are demanding, be thankful.

— Ron Kaufman

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

— George Strait

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and…

— Joseph Heller

You know, you learned that very young in American culture that the feminine boys don't do well. And yet, I had a…

— Leslie Jordan

Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up…

— Edna Longley

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason…

— Sloane Crosley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems…

— Robin McKinley

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

— Alan Ball

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

— Narendra Modi

The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life.…

— Jeff Sharlet

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal…

— Michael Salu

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

— George Marsden

We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.

— Stanley Krippner

“We are, as a culture and as a specias, in the midst of a great awakening, remembering that there is a nature…

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience…

— Richard Flanagan

Personally I love film culture.

— Shobana

We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course,…

— David Berg

The drag culture in the States is very rich and has a lot of history behind it.

— Violet Chachki

'The Karate Kid' was just lightning in a bottle. The second movie is a very worthy sequel, because you got to explore…

— Martin Kove

Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

— Geert Hofstede

In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are…

— Patrick Cox

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of…

— Claire Messud

“in spite of the phenomenal growth of the Internet and mobile devices, I still believe television will continue to be an incredibly…

— Phil Cooke

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

— Brian Chesky