Quotes with `culture

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  • Abdul Kalam We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Ben Barnes We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Stephen Vizinczey We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Carl Honore We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Camille Paglia Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Jean Dubuffet What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Casey Affleck What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Erich Fromm What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Karl Kraus When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Boy George 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.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bobby Keys 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.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • Confucius When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Hermann Goering Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
    Hermann Goering
    German Nazi politician and military leader
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  • Allen Ginsberg Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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