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Cultural Quotes
"It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal."
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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
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"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."
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"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
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"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
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"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."
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"It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team."
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"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
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"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
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"Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy."
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"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
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"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity."
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"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."
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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
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"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
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"Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all."
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"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
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"The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula."
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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."
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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
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"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."
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"Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer."
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"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."
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"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
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"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
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"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."
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