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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
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This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
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I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.
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I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.
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I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.
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Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as well as a lot of eating and drinking going on, they would also sing - they sat around in a circle, and everyone had a party piece.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
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Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.
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- Nov 07, 2020
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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- Nov 07, 2020