Culture Quotes - Page 37

• I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic world, there is very little there that you can get hold of that is really informative about Islam. If you look at the popular media, you'll see that the stereotype that begins with Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik has really remained and developed into the transnational villain of television and film and culture in general.

  Edward Said

  Country, Islamic, School

  Source: progressive.org

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• Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Descent

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.

  Randall Robinson

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom, and tradition. Religions polish people to be qualified to enter the region of the original homeland. Because of humankind's many different cultural backgrounds, God sought and set the standard of comparison and has been leading the way toward one unified religious world.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Religious, People, Training

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• Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

  Susan Cheever

  Sex, Vegas, Addiction

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Sick, Broken, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Tattoo, Confused, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

  Bob Costas

  Country, Military, Believe

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• I've been to Australia several times, and I just like the earthiness; it's part of the culture. That's a really good vibe to be around.

  Erin Heatherton

  Australia

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• Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to learn about life, about West and East, geography, history, culture, there are many, many things that you learn in order to be able to solve puzzles.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Fighting, Order, Community

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I think that in our culture there is this message to males that any time you can have sex with an attractive female, you should do it. But for females you always have to guard yourself against it, sort of keep sex at bay. You don't want to get a reputation, especially when you are under age.

  Alissa Nutting

  Sex, Thinking, Age

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies. You’re at the Aspen Ideas Fest, and you have these really smart, really accomplished people who pretend like they’ve somehow figured out a way to bypass the human condition. We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human.

  Moby

  Lonely, Smart, Ideas

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking.

  David Simon

  Community, Stories, World

  Source: progressive.org

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• Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that's a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better. But you can't tell me that if America didn't exist, the culture of movies wouldn't exist. It's not a distinctly American art form.

  David Simon

  Art, Blue, Jeans

  Source: progressive.org

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• There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you do? Like Canute, one cannot fight the sea, you have to go with your love, and hope one day, things change.

  Junot Diaz

  Fighting, Sea, One Day

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Struggle, Machines

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Junot Díaz". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Culture Religion, People, Secret

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil costs me very much. By the time it is shipped here and we pay tariffs, how much more do I have to charge the consumer? And then who could afford to buy it? That is why people sell synthetic rose and end up poisoning themselves. It shouldn't be that way.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Oil, Availability, Rose

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

  Ian Bremmer

  Wall, Thinking, Identity

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• My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Mom, Brother, Feminist

  "Top 10 Male Celebrity Feminists Andrew Garfield Could Learn From" by Em & Lo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Well, when it comes to inspiration, I come from San Diego originally - it's an un-media-hyped, sleepy sort of town, big on beach culture you know?

  Gary Jules

  Beach, Inspiration, Media

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• My favorite parts are definitely the traveling. Getting to see all the places that we've been is really amazing to me, [as well as] getting to meet all the people that we wouldn't normally meet. It's really awesome, because we really get to know their culture and see what it's like in other places in the world.

  Agent M

  People, World, My Favorite

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• [E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.

  David Horowitz

  Heart, Reality, Light

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• Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Senior, Christian, Religious

  "The US needs a new soft era" by Ahmed H. Zewail, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2010.

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