Culture Quotes

"Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

"Art is such an important part of our culture"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman... the markets could be very unsettled"

David Jones

"The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context"

Troy Perry, Clergyman

"In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on"

Thomas Frank, Author

"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play"

Philip Warren Anderson, Scientist

"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict"

Chen Ning Yang, Physicist

"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things"

Joseph Epstein, Writer

"What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food"

Vincent Schiavelli, Actor

"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees"

Tony Hsieh, Businessman

"If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state"

Jeb Bush, Politician

"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being"

William Irwin Thompson, Philosopher

"I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture"

Teresa Heinz, Celebrity

"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written"

Mark Strand, Poet

"What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure"

Satyajit Ray, Director

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

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politician

"Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles"

Juan Antonio Samaranch, Celebrity

"Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures"

Jet Li, Actor

"I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth"

Julio Iglesias, Musician

"I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture"

Gyorgy Legeti

"I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture"

David Bohm, Scientist

"The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge"

Ismail Merchant, Producer

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