Culture Quotes

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

We women have gained so many more things, but we lost that kind of sexual power, the glamour power. We still love women who can still do that in culture.

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban vinyl collection from Miami thrift stores.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

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.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own reality.

Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide bombings are a reality.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.