Nick Zinner Quotes

I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

Nick Zinner

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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Mirror
  • Back
  • Seeing

• I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Identity

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Culture
  • Motorcycle
  • Lot

• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  

  L.A. Reid
  • World
  • Music
  • Culture

• To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Men
  • Culture
  • End

• It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Culture

• I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Music
  • Fans
  • Seeing

• Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• Religion and ethics were not always-or even frequently-mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • God
  • Live
  • Real

• The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Mind
  • America
  • Help

• I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Fear

• To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • True
  • Culture

• The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Important
  • Long
  • Culture

• The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

  

  Ellen Key
  • Power
  • War
  • Nature

• You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Happy
  • Today
  • Culture

• There are many wonderful themes from 'Moana' that people discover, and I also hope they're inspired to go on their own journeys and to learn more about the Polynesian culture, because we're pretty great! I'm so proud of the people the filmmakers talked to - the Oceanic Trust.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking wounded, and we want everyone to know.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Live
  • Past
  • Culture

• Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Culture
  • Museums
  • DNA

• I want to work with amazing filmmakers and tell important stories, and if I have to audition to do that, I will.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Work
  • Important
  • Amazing

• The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Long
  • Forever

• I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

  

  Nick Zinner
  • Culture
  • Seeing
  • Alternatives