Culture Quotes
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I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
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Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
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In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
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Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
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I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.
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I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.
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We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.
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Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
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There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.
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Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
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I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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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.
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Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.
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I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.
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Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
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My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.
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Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
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Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.
