Culture Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (C) List-
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don`t write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin
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No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi
Subject: Civilization Quotes :: Culture QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses
Lee Loevinger
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I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
Laurence Olivier, Sir
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span
Karl Kraus
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Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
John Burroughs
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Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
John Berger
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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
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As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federli...
Anthony Beal
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
Andre Malraux
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom Wolfe
Subject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the...
Daniel Quinn
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Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
Don DeLillo
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Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with ...
Dennis Prager
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Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with ...
Dennis Prager
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
Seneca
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
Chuck Palahniuk
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A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
Ayn Rand
Subject: Civilization Quotes :: Culture Quotes :: Ideas Quotes :: Philosophy Quotes :: Truth Quotes :: Value Quotes :: Vision Quotes :: Writing QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on ea...
Robert Anton Wilson
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Subject: Culture QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced ...
Hermann Hesse
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[on celebrity] "I have a healthy fear of it. I`m not into the celebrity culture aspect of being an artist. To me it represents extinction. The more people know about you, the less they want to try to figure out what you have to say in your movies, and the...
John Cusack
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[March 1997] We use up words like "spiritual" so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago "spiritual" had a distinct meaning. But now there`s a lot of jack-off thinkers who just love to talk about the spiritual. And there is a lot of bogus -- is "bogosity" ...
George Carlin
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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn`t really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He`s not from another planet,...
Christopher Nolan
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As a culture, the West has found itself in a strange, not battle of the genders, but battle in one`s own gender. There`s been so much equalizing that we`ve all kind of lost a little sense of who and what we`re about, and a certain amount of definitions of...
Jude Law
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[Talking about his success in playing the two Mr. Darcy roles] "I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I`m still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
Colin Firth
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. I don`t think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now i...
Bernardo Bertolucci
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[on the untimely death of Pier Paolo Pasolini] A remarkable director -- a great loss to Italian culture. It was as if he was discovering cinema from scratch.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I`m concerned.
Martin Freeman
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As a child, you watch the films your parents watch. My father would rather watch Lino Ventura than Ingmar Bergman. Each home has its culture, its roots, its story, which means prime time films.
Olivier Martinez
