Culture Quotes - Page 14

• As far as cities, I love London. I go to London very often because I think the young people there are very creative. I also love New York, of course, and the clash of different cultures you find there.

  Nicki Minaj

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Spiritual, Practice, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but also the biggest consumer in the world. Which means that a lot of things get used, a lot of things get wasted, and a lot of things get churned out in ways that are wasteful.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Mean, Way, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hate, War, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

  Val Kilmer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Land

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

  Jay Severin

  Acceptance, America, Melting

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• To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

  Gary Snyder

  Behalf

  Gary Snyder (1995). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds : New and Selected Prose”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

  Andre Maurois

  Reality, Mind, World

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• I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Speak, Makers, Activist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The key to culture is it's a framework for making decisions. And if it's baked into your culture, people learn how to make decisions across that culture without you ever saying anything. You never have to really do anything except watch and promote and move people around.

  Keith Rabois

  Moving, Keys, People

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.

  Kevin Sessums

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  May, Neurosis, Patterns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Opportunity, Inheritance, World

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

  Keith Rabois

  People, Office, Everyday

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

  Jonas Mekas

  Country, Confused, Real

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

  Lester Bangs

  Shining, Pieces, Trash

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.460, Anchor

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• Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

  David Brooks

  Art, People, Bragging

  David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, Simon and Schuster

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• Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.

  Christiane Northrup

  Thinking, Understanding, Energy

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• All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don' t need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.

  James C. Collins

  Discipline, People, Needs

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• An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Accountability, Doe, Spirituality

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• Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

  Naomi Wolf

  Character, Men, Males

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

  Richard J. Foster

  Ideas, Giving, Obsession

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• When we talk about the Judeo-Christian or the Judeo-Muslim tradition, it's important to remember that we are speaking of a Jewish component of civilization, but not in itself a civilization. What is happening now in Israel is that you have a coming together of Jews from the Christian world and Jews from the Muslim world with different cultures.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Important, Together

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