Culture Quotes

"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"

"We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own 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"

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

"The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets"

"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"

"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"

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

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

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture"

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got"

"What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture"

"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting"

"It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture"

"The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture"

"This call for a new culture is not a new idea"

"When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments"