- Devices
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love feeling like I'm 'on the pulse' of things. Nothing more satisfying, more valued, more exciting as a writer. Because shaping pop culture really means that you're saying something that a lot of people want to hear.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to record many albums, have a healthy record label with talented artists, keep building my publishing catalogue, and maintain our culture with good music that will be remembered for years to come.
- Hemisphere
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they're embracing it as a youth culture thing.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the influence of surf culture on fashion in L.A.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in my mid-40s now, and I came out in 11th grade, so I must have been 17. So that's quite a long time ago, and the temperature and the culture was different.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against which they define themselves.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020