Culture Quotes

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.