- Nov 07, 2020
Culture Quotes
How culture shapes who we are.
These culture quotes range from admitting that pop culture references are a poor substitute for real understanding, to growing disillusionment with celebrity culture the more one is exposed to it. Another connects classroom culture directly to organizational culture. Related reflections appear in our Cultured quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I'm not the best Spanish speaker, but I have a longing to connect with that. I just think how supportive the Latin community has been, even during 'Idol.' I'd like to give back with something like that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's enough. You wouldn't look at these kids and say that they are Uncle Toms or self-hating or fleeing or trying to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very natural to them as kids.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
- Entranced
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.
- Nov 07, 2020
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020