- Love
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge is always around culture. I think that's often underestimated because people focus on the substance and the practical; soft steps go missing.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to end a culture rampant with harassment, we must listen to the adult women who are speaking out courageously. We must also make room for girls to speak: If we listened, we'd find that many middle schoolers are trying to tell us, 'Me too.'
- Cares
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ours is not a culture that cares much for the work of care.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prom culture is now painstakingly documented on sites such as Instagram and Facebook, exacerbating the angst of the uninvited.
- Mentality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.
- Discard
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I was very unhappy. I felt like I was constantly self-sabotaging in order to conform to religion, culture dynamics. I was censoring myself. I was shutting down inside.
- Multicultural
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Real World' perfectly captured the politically correct, multicultural zeitgeist of the 1990s, and it was exhilarating to be at the center of a pop culture phenomenon.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
- Nov 07, 2020
As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020