- 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
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
- Spaces
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It's food that I adore above all others.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surrounded by a sweltering state known for its staunch conservatism, Austin is an oasis. It's home to the University of Texas, which continuously fosters a well-educated youth culture who have been funneling their collective creative energy into building a vibrant music, film, and technology scene for decades.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that Boston is one of the great centers of intellectual culture as well as sport. It's one of the centers of America, with a great orchestra, great sports, great hospitals, and great universities.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bringing back something akin to Glass-Steagall would clearly help limit risk in the system. And that's a very good and worthy goal. Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020