Quotes with `culture

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  • Mao Tse-Tung An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Bell Hooks An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Brad Bird And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Malcolm X Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
    By any means necessary (1992)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Caroline Knapp Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Bob Filner As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Stephen Bayley As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Betty Comden At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
    Betty Comden
    American musician and writer of screenplays (1917 - 2006)
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  • Arthur Erickson Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Beth Ditto Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Billy Higgins Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • B. F. Skinner Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Brendan Fraser Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Caroline Knapp Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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