Culture Quotes - Page 35

• Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Grateful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Men, Race

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless.

  Jill Soloway

  Talking, People, Trying

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from “Six Feet Under." He didn”t really like to have too many pop culture references because they don”t really hold up after a few years.

  Jill Soloway

  Years, Feet, Balls

  "‘Transparent’ creator: Streaming shows are ‘inventing a new art form’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 14, 2015.

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• Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Father, Thinking, Japan

  Source: www.ign.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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• I was pretty much consumed by this character. Even when I was off, I was continually searching to find something else new about [Idi] Amin, and to embed myself deeper into the culture to the point that, in the end, I was so entrenched that I could tell what tribe someone was from just by looking at them.

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, Tribes, Ends

  Source: aalbc.com

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• When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.

  Joe Flaherty

  Team, Loss, Patterns

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• The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

  Howard Thompson

  Atheist, Humanity, Superstitions

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• I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.

  Jello Biafra

  Body, Slipping, Bones

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

  Chuck D

  Voice, Government, Hip Hop

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Ultimately, strong branding is not just a promise to our customers,to our partners, to our shareholders and to our communities;it is also a promise to ourselves... in that sense, it is about using a brand as a beacon, as a compass, for determining the right actions, for staying the course, for evolving a culture, for inspiring a company to reach its full potential.

  Carly Fiorina

  Strong, Community, Promise

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• Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

  Chuck D

  Differences, Similarity, Humans

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Law, Islam

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

  Cory Arcangel

  Artist, Thinking, Years

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• There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

  George Osborne

  Jobs, Government, Trying

  "George Osborne pledges battle against 'anti-business culture' amid bonus row" by Jill Treanor and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.

  Christopher Titus

  Moving, Holiday, Land

  "Titus / The Perfect Thanksgiving". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

  Dana Gould

  Music, Fun, Party

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• I'm forever a part of pop culture.

  Godfrey

  Forever, Pop Culture, Pops

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• I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took the dancehall culture and mixed it up with the hip-hop as well. I kept going, going, and I got real hot in the streets of Miami - you know, doing pirate radio - then ended up doing 99 Jamz, the big station out there.

  DJ Khaled

  Real, Boys, Jamaica

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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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• Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Names, Bully, Oppression

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• What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hypnosis, Way, Economic

  "Deepak Chopra Talks About Awakening the World and His “Sages and Scientists” Symposium". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Radio, Talk Radio

  Bernard Goldberg (2009). “Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

  George Gilder

  Evil, Doe, Fascination

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