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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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"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
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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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"Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all."
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"The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture."
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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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"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."
"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."
"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."
"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
"We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture."
"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.""
"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."
"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."
"Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer."
"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
"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."
"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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