Culture Quotes · Page 156

Subconsciously it is possible to act, consciously it is possible to decide and overconsciously to create.

— Ilkin Santak

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

— John Walford

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

— Thomas Kinkade

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the…

— James A. Baldwin

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.

— Anonymous

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

— Mildred Blaxter

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

— Jonathan Davis

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

— Ernest Gaines

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture...…

— Maxine Kumin

For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people…

— Michael Showalter

In America, people really love movies here and it's part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always…

— Baran Odar

I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure…

— Imelda Marcos

I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car…

— Manny Farber

The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers…

— Jane Goodall

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap…

— Lance Morrow

Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just…

— Alan Moore

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that…

— Christian Lous Lange

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,…

— Gregory Orr

“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is…

— Edward F Edinger

I'm really into Noel Gallagher's lad culture vibe. I used to wear Fred Perry polo shirts a lot. In fact, I went…

— Nicholas Galitzine

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even…

— Ruth Benedict

Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature…

— Anna Wintour

Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time.

— Travis Kalanick

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

— Tao Lin

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

— Gregory David Roberts

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

— Donovan

Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got…

— Emeril Lagasse

I want to introduce people and my fans in Bihar to the Maharashtrian culture.

— Ravi Kishan

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

— R. C. Sproul

I am an Indian, and I know what India is. I know Indian culture. I know Indian constitution and democracy.

— Mammootty

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and…

— Aziz Ansari

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

— Morris Gleitzman

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

— Zachary Quinto

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

— Jackie Chan

The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.

— Cornel West

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with…

— Stephen Harper

“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.”

— Haruki Murakami