Culture Quotes
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I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.
Martin Amis
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I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.
Alain Macklovitch
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In the life of the mass-order, the culture of the generality tends to conform to the demands of the average human being. Spirituality decays through being diffused among the masses when knowledge is impoverished in every possible way by rationalisation until it becomes accessible to the crude understanding of all.
Karl Jaspers
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American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.
Alex Tizon
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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.
Azita Ghanizada
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My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.
Gene Luen Yang
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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.
William Irwin Thompson
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I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.
Christian Marclay
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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.
Erich Maria Remarque
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With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.
Alessandro Michele
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The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.
Jim DeMint
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Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
Anton Chekhov
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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.
Joe Lonsdale
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Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.
Jane Jacobs
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When I got divorced, it was another culture shock. It was going from this world I had been into since the age of 16 to literally standing on the streets of New York in kind of shock.
Mayte Garcia
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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.
Amy Gerstler
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The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
George Sarton
