Culture Quotes - Page 30

• What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

  Casey Affleck

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Goal, Different, Might

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• The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

  Ronald Reagan

  School, Law, Institutions

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• The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Destiny, Sick, House

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• Screw every known human culture.

  Greg Egan

  Screws, Humans, Known

  Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

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• There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.

  Michael Josephson

  Two, Goal, Risk

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• America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Artist, Swings

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 92), 1966.

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• The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.

  Barack Obama

  Our World, Bridges, People

  "Obama asks geography bee question" by Byron Tau, www.politico.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

  Andy Grove

  Maintaining, Strategic, Has Beens

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• I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Morning, Doors, Black

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• Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Discovery, Joy, Musical

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• The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.

  Katie Couric

  Flags, Littles, United States

  "The Nefarious 'We'" by Jonah Goldberg, www.freerepublic.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Character, Who I Am, Names

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

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• A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Standards, Higher

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We must reject the thought that evangelism is to be separated from the importance of standing against evil. We weren't saved just to escape this world and go to Heaven. Transformed people transform the culture while standing boldly against evil.

  James Robison

  People, Evil, Heaven

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• The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; he is the way, and all other ways are no way at all... We live in an age of humanism - over the last several decades, man has fought to purge God from his conscience and culture. He has managed to make himself the center of all things.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Men, Age

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• Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.

  Alan Watts

  Strong, Love Is, Men

  Alan W. Watts (2012). “Nature, Man and Woman”, p.11, Vintage

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• One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.

  Bruno Heller

  Memories, School, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.

  David Slade

  Supportive, Fans, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Bankers, Banking

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• If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Wish, Looks, Treats

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• The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.

  David Hackett Fischer

  Ideas, Diversity, Creative

  David Hackett Fischer (1991). “Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

  Hilary Hahn

  Thinking, Jeans, People

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• For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Conservatism, Shareholders

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