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Culture Quotes
"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"
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"According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background."
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"Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism."
"Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity."
"International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen."
"Movies are a big part of our Indian culture."
"There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them."
"I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution."
"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."
"Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture."
"I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy."
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
"I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate."
"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture."
"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."
"Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan."
"Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man."
"I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting."
"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general."
"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."
"Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture."
"India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: ??? ?????? ?????? ????? ??????? Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides."
"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
"I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized."
"English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different."
"The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture."
"This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face."
"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
"Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite."
"My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture."
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