Culture Quotes - Page 14

• An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

  Jonas Mekas

  Home, Would Be, Return

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

  Jonas Mekas

  Country, Confused, Real

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

  Keith Rabois

  People, Office, Everyday

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• The key to culture is it's a framework for making decisions. And if it's baked into your culture, people learn how to make decisions across that culture without you ever saying anything. You never have to really do anything except watch and promote and move people around.

  Keith Rabois

  Moving, Keys, People

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Racism, Environmental, Contentment

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Names, Important

  "This “Jeopardy!” Champ and Proud Geek Gives Swirlies to Gamergaters in His Spare Time". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Country, Grandparent, Identity

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• Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but also the biggest consumer in the world. Which means that a lot of things get used, a lot of things get wasted, and a lot of things get churned out in ways that are wasteful.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Mean, Way, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Speak, Makers, Activist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

  Wangechi Mutu

  America, Influence, Incredibles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hate, War, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

  Stephen Covey

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• Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Organization, Community

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• I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

  Val Kilmer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Land

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

  Lester Bangs

  Shining, Pieces, Trash

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.460, Anchor

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• Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

  David Brooks

  Art, People, Bragging

  David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, Simon and Schuster

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• America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

  Jay Severin

  Acceptance, America, Melting

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• Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.

  Christiane Northrup

  Thinking, Understanding, Energy

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• All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don' t need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.

  James C. Collins

  Discipline, People, Needs

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• Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little schoolgirl. What culture is there in an old jug, I ask you?

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Jugs, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

  Gary Snyder

  Behalf

  Gary Snyder (1995). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds : New and Selected Prose”, Counterpoint LLC

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• An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Accountability, Doe, Spirituality

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• Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

  Naomi Wolf

  Character, Men, Males

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

  Andre Maurois

  Reality, Mind, World

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• Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

  Richard J. Foster

  Ideas, Giving, Obsession

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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