Culture Quotes

If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense.

We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.

MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

Everyone with an iPhone is a journalist in their own way now, especially because we live in a tabloid culture.

I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture. But there's a limit to how far we can take that.

Love the horses, but don't ride on them! Riding the horses is a culture, a wrong culture!

If your culture is not peaceful, throw it from your life! If your religion is not peaceful, throw it from your life! Anything which is not peaceful is worthless! Throw it from your life!

Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.

our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.

The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.

Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.

Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.

All great companies have spirit and culture. Mean spirited returns mean spirit.

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in.

God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world.

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.

We must change the culture of politics first.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc.

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.

Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture.

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.