- 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
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
- Book Tour
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started talking about cool - Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and a bunch of other early, cool jazz folk.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
- Denigrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020