Quotes and Sayings About Culture
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An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
-- A. Bartlett GiamattiSource : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
-- A. C. CuzaSource : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
-- A. R. Rahman -
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Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
-- A. R. Rahman -
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
-- Aaron Wildavsky -
The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
-- Aasif MandviSource : "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
-- Abbas KiarostamiSource : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
-- Abdallah IISource : "Learning How To Be King". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2000.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
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The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.
-- Adam Fletcher -
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
-- Adam Michnik -
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.
-- Adam West -
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
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The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.
-- Adi DaSource : Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
-- Adora Svitak -
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!
-- Adrienne Rich -
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
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The people who control culture in China have no culture.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
-- Aisha TylerSource : Aisha Tyler (2005). “Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl”, Plume Books
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Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel
-- Aja Monet -
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For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
-- Al Gore -
When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.
-- Al Gore -
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.
-- Al Gore -
We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.
-- Alain de Botton -
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?
-- Alan Ball -
I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
-- Alan HirschSource : Alan Hirsch (2009). “The Forgotten Ways”, p.111, Baker Books