Culture Quotes
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Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.
Akon
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What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
Christopher Hitchens
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Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.
Sadiq Khan
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I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
Dawoud Bey
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There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.
Mary Beard
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New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.
Jared Kushner
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Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.
Jillionaire
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America has the greatest military in the world, and it's up to our leaders to set the bar for what a 21st century military culture of innovation with transparent, collaborative leadership looks like.
Joe Lonsdale
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.
Christa B. Allen
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People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'
Charles Leadbeater
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The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms of planetary development. I think this might be because nature corresponds to the unconscious and the artificial world of the city and human culture to the conscious mind.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.
Pablo Antonio Cuadra
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It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force - but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees
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Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.
Alexander Lebedev
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
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I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
Laurence Fishburne
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Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.
Lee Kun-hee
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Most companies overlook the most basic of all training functions: the onboarding of new employees into their corporate culture.
Jay Samit
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We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time.
Max Richter
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There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.
Phil Ramone
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'That’s all very well - they’re not educated, poor creatures.' 'No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America - goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.'
Agatha Christie
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We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
Jonathan Cain