- People
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely the Korean culture is very strong to me, and I grew up in Hawaii where Asian-Americans are the dominant culture, but I never thought of myself as the minority.
- Fiction Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.
- Parent
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- Nov 07, 2020