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- 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
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
- Film Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
- Availability
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- Nov 07, 2020
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
- Dialog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like that part of the culture of 'MST3K' is this constant dialog on what movies could be done and what movies should be done. I've seen plenty of bad movies and walked out afterward thinking 'That would have been perfect for 'MST3K.''
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every podcast network has a different culture as far as I can tell. How they run things at Nerdist is totally different than how they run things at Earwolf is totally different than All Things Comedy or Maximum Fun or Feral Audio. And it's different if it's independent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to train our kids better and really enforce in them that no matter what mainstream media and pop culture and all of the terrible things around us say - that it's OK to tear people down, that somehow it will make you feel better, and it's OK to gossip about people - it won't make you feel better.
- Shared
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- Nov 07, 2020