Quotes with `culture

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  • Bridgit Mendler The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
    Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
    Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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  • Caitlin Moran The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bill Griffith The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • George Eliot The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Anna Quindlen The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Barry Sanders The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Susan Sontag The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Midge Decter The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
    Midge Decter
     
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  • Charles Darwin The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg The impact of television on our culture is... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ben Nicholson The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Alvin Toffler The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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