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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
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett's greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life - against cancer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.
- Negativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geek culture is all about being super passionate about your interests and not afraid to express them, even if your interests are unpopular.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, products are a reflection of their founders, and I consider myself a geek. But aside from that, Imgur just organically evolved into the epicenter of geek culture.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'
- Expectancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020