Culture Quotes · Page 182

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

— Mark Steyn

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts.

— Ron Kaufman

I've always loved to sing in Spanish. To me, it's just my culture. It's what I am; I'm Latina.

— Paula DeAnda

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

— Louis Kronenberger

“Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to…

— Bryant McGill

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

— Violet Chachki

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a…

— Chaske Spencer

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to…

— Ted Allen

I didn't grow up in a voting culture. My father didn't push voting on me, my mother didn't push voting on me.…

— Jelly Roll

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy.…

— Joel Salatin

Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing…

— Scot McKnight

By far the best classes were my Spanish 3 and Spanish Culture classes when I studied abroad in Madrid. That was an…

— Alex Morgan

For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America,…

— Cheryl Clarke

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new…

— Gabe Newell

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape…

— Henry Louis Gates

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you…

— Michael Pollan

“We are defined by what we believe in. Identity is shaped by what we believe is right. Culture is cultured, pun intended;…

— Hlovate

“You Are What You Eat Take food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about…

— Anonymous

“Human culture arises directly from how we overcome the challenges of survival. Some call culture a balance between decadence and celebration. The…

— David Ai

Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this…

— Richard Rodriguez

A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us…

— George H. W. Bush

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these…

— Hamid Dabashi

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

— Hubert de Givenchy

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

— Terence McKenna

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

— Seth Godin

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

— Park Won-soon

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

— Lemn Sissay

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

— Richard Rogers

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

— David Oyelowo

I would like to reach out to the global audience; Music is beyond all the culture and language barriers.

— D. Imman

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

— Lauren Greenfield

I have a fond appreciation for the Canadian culture and the Canadian food scene in general.

— Guy Fieri

You can't share things about India with Americans, as they don't seem interested. Their culture is different.

— The Great Khali

“Culture matters because every decision made at every level moves an organization toward its core purpose—or somewhere else.”

— Becca Spradlin Lead On Mission

I started my career in an era when footballers were different. There was a different culture.

— Gareth Barry

I love pop culture. I love sports. I love entertainment. The fact that I get paid to be a part of this…

— Mauro Ranallo

Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive.

— Tobias Lutke

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

— Ishmael Reed