Culture Quotes
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Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.
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I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.
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There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.
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I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.
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Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
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For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
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I think that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of an entrepreneurial mindset.
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A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
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Saying... 'Come as you are, keep living like you do, keep your culture, and we will add all that together,' doesn't work.
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Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
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Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home - I love the culture clash of the city.
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Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.
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If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.
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God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.
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Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.
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I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.
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In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.
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Corporate programming is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate 'culture' with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
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I am very aware of how warmly Scotland is regarded around the world, and a vote for self-determination would raise our international profile even further, with lots of benefits for Scottish arts and culture.
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Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
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I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.
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Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.
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Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.
