Culture Quotes - Page 33

• We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, World, Materials

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

  Terence McKenna

  Pain

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• Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Mind, Pay

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• I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture.

  Stefan Heym

  Government, Media, Reform

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• I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be a while before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it - well, the people who became stars out of it - their lives were completely changed.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Stars, Twilight, Thinking

  "Watch: ‘The Host’ star Saoirse Ronan on the ‘scary’ possibility of ‘Twilight’-level fame" by Chris Eggertsen, uproxx.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Impact, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.

  Robert Mankoff

  Thinking, Anxiety, Guilt

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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• It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door mainly because my girlfriend wants me to lock the door, but mind you we lock our doors. It is a little simplistic to say that we blend easily back home with other cultures. It's difficult, but I think it's mainly a big city phenomenon.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Girlfriend, Home, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on culture. My position is that culture can actually be economically viable. When I make a film, the film costs $3 million. Now, in Quebec, it grossed $3.5 million, which is a small film. It's not a comedy. There are no stars in it. And, it still grosses $3.5 million. That's just in Quebec.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Stars, Military, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I still have every record company sending every new, hot track to me, to do music videos, so I'm chained by the foot to pop culture. I still know what kids dress like and speak like, and I still hang out with them. It's just the nature of my day job. I am a freak of nature that has to understand them.

  Joseph M. Kahn

  Jobs, Kids, Feet

  Source: collider.com

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• Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.

  Tony Hsieh

  Long, Empowering, Passionate

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• Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Art, Issues, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.

  Howard Schultz

  Sports, Rich Or Poor, Color

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• I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

  Andrew Weil

  Past, Substance, World

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• Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

  Reid Hoffman

  Attention, Pay, Pay Attention

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• Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.

  Jeff Bezos

  Self, Amazon, Facts

  "I Asked Jeff Bezos The Tough Questions - No Profits, The Book Controversies, The Phone Flop - And He Showed Why Amazon Is Such A Huge Success". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2014.

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• Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical - and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Media, Sea, Npr

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• Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goodbye, Body Image, Critics

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• Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  People, Yearning, Discounts

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• It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Hollywood, Machines

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• For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.

  David Cronenberg

  Wall, Dark, Artist

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• Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

  Isaac Stern

  Music Is, Parts Of Life, Active

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• Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

  Michael Gartner

  Writing, News, Firsts

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