Culture Quotes · Page 83

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

— Nell Irvin Painter

The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

— Mitt Romney

I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

— Laurie Foos

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

— Julie Smolyansky

“The nature of your work does not have to be the culture of your team.”

— Janna Cachola

I really respect Hov's drive, as well as his whole career and what he's done for the culture.

— Fabolous

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

— Albert Einstein

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

— Sebastian Lelio

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Driving in Chicago wins over New York; people are so fast. It's almost like there's a subliminal street racing culture here. They…

— Caroline Polachek

I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of…

— Carrie Brownstein

[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his…

— Newt Gingrich

“I have always admired people with strong roots, people who know where their home is and feel at one with themselves there,…

— Yangzom Brauen

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of…

— George Will

I think we've reached a point now in culture where seeing depictions and images of Satan and Satanism and demons and witchcraft…

— Jonathan Roumie

One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom…

— Kim Edwards

These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And…

— Ani DiFranco

“The Australian aborigines, reckoned to be among the most primitive of races upon evidence that is far from conclusive, have a region…

— Olaf Ruhen

“For while they'd stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture is not international.…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can…

— Alix Kates Shulman

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human…

— Richard Dawkins

The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions…

— Henry Giroux

I think I live inside the plane! I never have time to unpack; I'm always leaving in two days again. I travel…

— Adriana Lima

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

— Sinclair Lewis

“The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.”

— Martin Amis

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

— Ayn Rand

Staying at Airbnb listings gives me the opportunity to truly understand and experience the local culture of the countries I visit.

— Joe Gebbia

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

— Morena Baccarin

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

— Doc Brown

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

— Tommy Lee Jones

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

— Chris Marker

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

— Jimmy Iovine

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

— Lisa Kudrow

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

— Michael Dirda

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

— Chogyam Trungpa

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

— Brunello Cucinelli

I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

— Haruki Murakami