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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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"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."
72
"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
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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."
55
"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."
54
"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
53
"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."
52
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
50
"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."
50
"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
48
"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
47
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
47
"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
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"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
45
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
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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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"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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"Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy."
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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."
43
"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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"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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"Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all."
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"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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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."
38
"Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious."
38
"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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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."
37
"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
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"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
36
"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."
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