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Culture Quotes
"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
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"Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite."
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"I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture."
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"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."
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"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."
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"Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for."
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"Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" at any price. The old man had punished Mona Lisa by having her used in an advertising campaign for suppositories. It was the free-enterprise way of handling beauty that threatened to get the upper hand."
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"You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act-that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?"
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"Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty."
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"The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat differently than any other culture has ever been, but ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore - "I'm easy; I'll eat anything - can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society. Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason (even consciousness) is not generally high on the list."
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"Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity."
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"There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them."
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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."
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"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
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"I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate."
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"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture."
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"India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: ??? ?????? ?????? ????? ??????? Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides."
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"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!"
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"There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done."
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"The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman... the markets could be very unsettled."
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"You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions."
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"I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits."
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"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture."
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"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."
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"It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book " and that he did not learn it better."
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"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."
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"Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and THIS makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europe. This is why, Barzini says, Italians will tolerate hideously incompetent generals, presidents, tyrants, professors, bureaucrats, journalists and captain of industry, but will never tolerate incompetent opera singers, conductors, ballerinas, courtesans, actors, film directors, cooks, tailors... In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real."
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"Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews."
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"Our cultural lens is so much a part of us that we are not even aware of how obvious it is to others. Like the nose on your face, you may forget that it is there, but everyone else sees it. I can't look at you and not see your nose."
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"Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!"
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"Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a "hand hug. This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved."
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"Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism."
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