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Cultural Quotes
"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
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"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
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"The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture."
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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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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
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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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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."
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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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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."
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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular 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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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games."
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"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
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"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
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"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."
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"After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are."
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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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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."
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"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."
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