Culture Quotes - Page 34

• While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

  Andrew Motion

  Rap, Should Have, Choices

  "Ode to a right royal charmer" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Educational, Pride

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• Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church.

  Mike Pilavachi

  Church, Happenings

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• When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ideas, Important, Way

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• Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Technology, Differences

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• Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

  Hesiod

  People, Bacteria, One Liner

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• I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Nuts, Proportion, Exception

  "Press regulation 'needs state support'" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2012.

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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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• What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  America, Jazz, Alcoholics Anonymous

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• The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, Raymond W. Gastil (1986). “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sex, Ubiquity, Characteristics

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• That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Men, Mcdonalds

  "Real Time with Bill Maher",

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• I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

  James Ellroy

  World, Way, Path

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.

  Demetri Martin

  Moving, Shapes, I've Learned

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• 1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.

  Pat Metheny

  Night, Guitar, Icons

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• Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

  Ryan Giggs

  Color, Black, Half

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• [Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in a culture in which this decision is undermined by the notion that the single most valuable contribution a woman can make is to be visually attractive. Women photographers make a strong case for seeing and an even stronger case for recording what you see.

  Diane Keaton

  Strong, Choices, Decision

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• I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hair, Other Cultures

  "Exclusive: Solange Knowles Shares Her Natural Hair Secrets" by Corynne Corbett, www.essence.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to, and make our culture okay to talk about.

  George Lopez

  Looks, Speak, Like You

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• It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Nice, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Fashion, Young Generation, Generations

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• It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

  Branford Marsalis

  Focus, Intellectual, Magazines

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• The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

  James Bryce

  Needs, Mediocrity, American Voters

  James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

  Steve Antin

  Beautiful, Mass Culture, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

  Will Gluck

  World, Speak, Reason

  Source: collider.com

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