Culture Quotes

"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language"

"Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all"

"We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics"

"So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people"

"I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered"

"The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?"

"I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it"

"I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses"

"From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media"

"Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education"

"Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture"

"I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea"

"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"

"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun"

"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving"

"I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture"

"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture"

"I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality"

"In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains"

"Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture"

"How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am"

"One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past"

"The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries"

"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history"

"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality"

"Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture"

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay"

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden"

"The child has a hundred languages – and a hundred hundred hundred more – but they steal ninety-nine. The school and the culture separate the head from the body"

"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture"

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious"

"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being"

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him"

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture"

"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it"

"It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it"

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture"

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal"

"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it"

"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 to it"