Culture Quotes
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To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.
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Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.
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Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
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High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
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Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue ribbon reciting the vernacular poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in particular "Little Brown Baby."
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The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
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In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
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I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.
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Culture is another dimension.
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If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.
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Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.
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I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'
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Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.
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Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.
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All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.
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I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.
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The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
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The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.
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Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.
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It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.
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Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel.
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If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.
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A culture exists within the Ted Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.
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Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.
