Culture Quotes
If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.
After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.
Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.
I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.
I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.
Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.
The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.
Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.
I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.
At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.
A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.
Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.
Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.
Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.
It’s not great when your husband thinks the only guy who can talk to you, is some other guy.
If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
High culture is the ability to hear the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.
The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes
I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.
In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.
We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.
I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.