Culture Quotes

After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.

I've always loved to sing in Spanish. To me, it's just my culture. It's what I am; I'm Latina.

Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.

English culture is highly literary-based.

Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'.

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

The market is like the police: of course you need it, but if it becomes the central organizing principle of your culture then you're in deep trouble.

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

... new EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.

[Mexican people] have a culture, a culture that goes back millennia.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the streets to be first.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.

Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed.

We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.