Culture Quotes · Page 185

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

— Luis Bunuel

The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

— Georgina Chapman

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

— Antonia Fraser

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

— Amy Tan

Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

— Barry Libert

I think we are as screwed as a culture as we are saved as a culture.

— Joel McHale

If Hollywood can make films on insects and make big money, why can't we make films on Punjabi culture?

— Binnu Dhillon

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the…

— Rick Warren

Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and…

— Joel Salatin

“Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end…

— J.G. Ballard

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western…

— Cynthia Breazeal

“I encourage you to cultivate your curiosity and discover how your cultural lens on the world can influence your interactions with people…

— Gaiti Rabbani

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how…

— Jack Welch

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us…

— Daniel Dennett

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that…

— Ken Liu

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the…

— Brad Holland

Most people aren't encouraged to think of their labor as very valuable. We usually think of it as the necessary thing we…

— Melissa Gira Grant

“I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor…

— Aurora Levins Morales

“We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers.…

— Tibor Kalman

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.…

— Janice Rogers Brown

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own…

— Patrick Stump

“Even though there is clearly a strong cultural no-no machine telling you not to summon them on what is functionally penalty of…

— Jerry Holkins

In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,…

— John Naisbitt

“By defining society not as an entity made up of individual people but as a collection of cultures--such as white culture, black…

— Tammy Bruce

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

— Wendell Phillips

You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

— Aeriel Miranda

You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone.

— Ilkin Santak

Because of both hipster culture and Facebook culture, the human race is starting to resemble a school of hairy piranhas.

— Chael Sonnen

Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.

— Simon Sinek

I'm passionate about holding on to my heritage and sharing it with family and friends, and cooking is a great way to…

— Marcela Valladolid

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

— Michael J. Knowles

“Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.”

— Mark Graban

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I…

— John Rocha

If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on.

— Ilkin Santak

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

— Alexander Chee

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

— Daniel Dennett

The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

— David J

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically…

— Alan Menken

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

— Matt Chandler

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

— Bruce Schneier