Culture Quotes

• Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.

  

  James St. James
  • Culture

• There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Art
  • Junk

• Think of the sushi trend that started in the '80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life.

  

  David Sax
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. This will be translated concretely into the reconquering of one's true nature through liberated labor, and the expression of one's own human condition through culture and art.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Art
  • True
  • Nature

• I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Fat

• Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Good
  • History
  • Bad

• The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Culture
  • Wanted
  • Media

• Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.6

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • War
  • Wish

• When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Church

• Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • People
  • Culture

• I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Experience
  • Culture

• You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Campaigns

• People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • People
  • Live
  • Energy

• I come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our differences and how I come from a different culture and my ancestors are different and my history is different.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Different
  • Kids
  • History

• Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Respect
  • Listener
  • Asian

• Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

  

  James Lafferty
  • Mind
  • American
  • Culture

• I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Respect

• Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Money
  • Celebrity
  • Shopping

• The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Culture

• We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.

  

  Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Creatures
  • Return
  • Ourselves

• I'll be, like, grocery shopping or doing something totally mundane, and once a day, you'll hear a Cyndi Lauper song on the radio. It is astounding what an icon she is, not just in popular music but in popular culture.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Music
  • She
  • Song

• Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Popular

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