Culture Quotes - Page 11

• Change before you have to.

  Jack Welch

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Writing, Poetry, Political

  "I did my own thing". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2008.

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• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

  Colin Welland

  Life, Baby, Rugby League

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• My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

  Louis Riel

  Art, Sleep, Years

  "The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters". Book by Max Wyman, p. 85, 2004.

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• Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Art, Home, Museums

  "Shrine or Factory?" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1918.

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• The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Views, Choices, Point Of View

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• If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Real, Giving, Would Be

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• Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

  Edith Wharton

  Band, Dangerous, Pursue

  Xingu and Other Stories "Xingu" (1916)

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Umpires, Roots

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

  Irene Khan

  Peace, War, Rights

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• To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Ideas, Able

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  I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Earth, Occupation

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

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• The end of culture is right living

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Ends

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• An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Army, Enemy

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.303, China Books

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• Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Zero, Clothes, Mcdonalds

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Music, Art, Book

  Closing remarks at an eClass forum in Barnes & Noble University, December 05, 2004.

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• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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

  Charlotte Bunch

  Racism, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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• Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Opposites, Today, Beats

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• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  Barbara Kruger

  New York, Cities, Los Angeles

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• 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

  Impact, Western Culture, Half

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

  Matthew Arnold

  Perfection, Mind, Becoming

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