Culture Quotes
Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.
Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on.
You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.
If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.
What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.
I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.
Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.
I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.
I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.
There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
There's the inherent value of the arts in terms of what that does for the quality of life and culture. The arts - in my case theater, play-writing - is all about community.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.
The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.
The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least.
When things go wrong, your best recovery effort is required. But don't just provide the missing piece (that's the recovery), also provide uniquely personal assistance (that's the memorable effort).
I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.
Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.
Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to, and make our culture okay to talk about.
