Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged,… — Lee Loevinger Copy Share Image
Pop culture, commercials. You only come across a commercial if you're watching a TV all the time. I've never been all that… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
“Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of… — Sally A. Kitt Chappell Copy Share Image
I’ve always thought that if comics are a part of pop culture [then] they should reflect pop culture, but a lot of… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of… — Clive Rowe Copy Share Image
I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
On the flip side, I've also had to struggle with saying "yes." Before I did this research and before I had my… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
A lot of people dismiss what we do. They think, 'Well, it's skate, so it's got to be, like, big baggy pants,… — James Jebbia Copy Share Image
I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like people don't even know how to react in some situations because of online culture. Since many things are… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
For the label to grow, it has to have great executives who understand the culture, understand the mission, and can lead. I… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive… — Jay Severin Copy Share Image
Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Whether you're from Egypt or Argentina or Singapore or Canada, you have a need to feel important, a need to feel secure,… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of… — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does not mean that in today's world they are acceptable any longer. The world… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
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![“[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/anne-waldman-4046_can-do_jack-kerouac-looking-at-the-fellaheen-wo_2348643.png)
