Culture Quotes - Page 19

• People think, sports delivers a message. It's not just about winning and losing, although that's important. It's about other things, too. It demonstrates how it can say certain things about your culture and your society.

  Gabe Polsky

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

  Peter Ustinov

  Humanity, Age, Battle

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Germany, Ruins

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Moral, Evolution, Source

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

  Samuel Smiles

  Teacher, School, College

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• I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

  Salman Rushdie

  Islam, Weapons, Way

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Mean, Civilization

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture. Branding has moved so far beyond its commercial origins that its impact is virtually immeasurable in social and cultural terms.

  Wally Olins

  Impact, Social, Significant

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• I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

  David Beckham

  Soccer, Silly, Thinking

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• I didn't really know anything about Romany culture going into this [Glue series]. The one thing that I liked the most about it is that it's so family based. They don't have mothers and fathers in the same way we do. They're really in a community, so parenting is shared between the community.

  Yasmin Paige

  Mother, Father, Community

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

  Park Geun-hye

  Economics, Human Life, Humans

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• Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Sophisticated, Music Is

  "Pumpkins Smashing Pumpkins' Chamberlin gives up the road to reinvent live music" by Andy Meek, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2014.

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• Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.

  Akon

  Song, Artist, Rapper

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• I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

  Denis Dutton

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK (60,000 seats); having the largest support (52,000 season book holders) of any club in Britain. This has been achieved by everyone who cares about Celtic working together towards a shared vision of football success and pride in a club which is part of our culture, open to all and a responsible member of the community working to help others where it can.

  Fergus McCann

  Football, Book, Pride

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• In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Artist

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• The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Danger, Periods, Appliances

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.214, Courier Corporation

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• And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Relaxation, Entertainment

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.190, Penguin

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• One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'

  Bill Gates

  People, Needs, Microsoft

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• Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

  James Hillman

  Struggle, Soul, Darkness

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• Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

  Masayoshi Son

  Country, Organization, Enough

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• The thing I like most about acting is that it entertains people. Films and TV can also offer such comfort to people... TV especially, because it's in people's homes and they can watch it at home. It offers them insights into different cultures and ideas, which I think is great.

  Yasmin Paige

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and less important who's playing what. You see that on the big screen and the small screen, and I think that's great. That's exciting.

  Will Packer

  Thinking, Race, Ethnicity

  Source: collider.com

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• I love pop culture. I love gossiping about all the different stars.

  Jon M. Chu

  Stars, Different, Pops

  Source: collider.com

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• Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

  Geoff Rickly

  Mirrors, Goes On, Way

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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