Quotes with `culture

  • I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
  • I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
  • When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
  • A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
  • My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
  • 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.
  • The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
  • Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
  • I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
  • When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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  • B. F. Skinner A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bai Ling Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Abbott Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Kate Millet However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Camille Paglia Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bryan Greenberg 'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley ...the levels of culture, the aspects of society: military, political, economic, social, emotional, religious, and intellectual. Those are your basic human needs....they are arranged in evolutionary sequence.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Butler A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Lionel Trilling A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Ajay Naidu Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Camille Paglia All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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