Culture Quotes - Page 5

• Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Wealth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1886). “Human Intercourse”

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• It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

  Robert E. Howard

  Art, Writing, Environment

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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• In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Block, Civilization

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• People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.

  Frank Partnoy

  Fun, Museums, People

  Frank Partnoy (2012). “Wait: The useful art of procrastination”, p.56, Profile Books

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• The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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• People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Helping Others, People, Giving

  Daisaku Ikeda (2014). “Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda”, p.233, I.B.Tauris

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• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Hands, Firsts

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Glasses, Doe, Littles

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• We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Healthy, Aim

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• The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

  Denis Dutton

  Art, Survival, Intellectual

  Denis Dutton (2009). “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

  Penelope Keith

  Nature, Grandchildren, Tree

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• Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

  Bill Vaughan

  Other Cultures, Gorillas, Way

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• Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

  Gates McFadden

  Thinking, Viewpoints, Language

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• Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

  Arthur Koestler

  Two, Half, Half Truth

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• Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Reality

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• The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

  Octavio Paz

  Civilization, Progress, Technique

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• Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

  Thurston Moore

  Alternatives, Mainstream, Should

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• Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

  Dee Hock

  Country, Months, Habit

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• Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

  John Thorne

  Food, Other Cultures, Joy

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• What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

  Theodore Bikel

  Moving, Pride, Other Cultures

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

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• A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Artist, Property, Paid

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

  Katherine Dunn

  Ideas, Care, Stills

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

  Helen Dunmore

  Russia, Age, Literature

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• My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Mistake, People, Independence

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• What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  People, Interesting, Cookbook

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