Joshua Foer Quotes

Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.

Joshua Foer

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• Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Together
  • Culture

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Memories
  • Lifetime
  • Regrets

• My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Memories
  • Awesome

• Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • Voice
  • Limit

• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Up
  • World
  • Culture

• New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Culture
  • New
  • New York

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Culture
  • You

• I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

  

  Karen O
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Culture

• War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • War
  • Culture
  • End

• There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Different
  • Women
  • Culture

• It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Culture
  • Never
  • Early

• One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Food
  • City

• Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Funny
  • Best
  • Memories

• I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Culture
  • Western
  • Pashtun

• There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Art
  • Book
  • History

• Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Culture
  • Health
  • Suicide

• I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Culture

• No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Good

• Heels I've always loved, but a wedge is perfect, in between glamorous and a common shoe. If going to the store, why wear flip-flops when you can wear wedges?

  

  Maria Canals Barrera
  • Why
  • Perfect

• Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Culture
  • Memories
  • Built