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.
It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.
Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.
It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.
I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.
Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.
Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.
For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.
In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.
I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.
I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.
Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.
Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...
I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.
I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.
We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.
It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.