Culture Quotes - Page 19

• I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

  T Bone Burnett

  Attention, Pay, Stuff

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• There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Junk, Television

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• I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Bravery, Inspire

  Interview with Roseanne Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2, 2012.

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• 47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a very special mixture between Japanese traditional culture and Western culture for the costume, set, story. Everything. I believe it will be a very special film that no one has ever seen.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Believe, Special, Hollywood

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• It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  World, Introducing, Difficult

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• Keanu Reeves learned a lot, respecting the culture. I was surprised when I first met him. He knew a lot already and he learned a lot. And also he learned Japanese. It's incredible. On the set, switching between the Japanese and English, even for us, is very hard. It's complicated. But the first time Keanu spoke in Japanese it was a very important scene between us, and more than the dialogue's meaning, I was moved. His energy for the film, completely perfect Japanese pronunciation. It was moving, surprising, respecting.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Moving, Perfect, Important

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• When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Glasses, Cameras, Done

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• It was a black and white film [at first]. And then it changed to colour film, and I was surprised and culture shocked when I was six or seven years old. And then HD, then 3D now. So what's going? What's coming next? It's so exciting.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Black And White, Years, Next

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• A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

  T. S. Eliot

  Benefits, Should, Constellations

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism

  John Avlon

  Country, Crazy, America

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• Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

  Lawrence Durrell

  French Culture

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• Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.

  Julian Johnson

  Spiritual, Odds, Risk

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• You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Real, People, Ignorant

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• Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  People, Mind, Literature

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• Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

  Josh James

  Competition, Majority, Driven

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• A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Directors, Proactive

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.21, Jaico Publishing House

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• Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.

  Jacque Fresco

  Mean, People, Answers

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• We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

  Jacque Fresco

  Greed, Prejudice, Found

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• It just seems like the culture war is over, and the gay kissers won.

  Bill Maher

  War, Gay, Seems

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• What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

  Casey Affleck

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Goal, Different, Might

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• When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

  Fred Armisen

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. January 11, 2006.

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• Feminism is not simply the idea that women can benefit from rediscovering themselves but also that our whole culture can benefit from correcting its psychic/sexual imbalance through each person becoming whole again.

  Anne Rush

  Psychics, Ideas, Feminism

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• Man is more than his environment. It is from the innate quality of the Spirit in him, his inner storehouse, that he draws those ideas, his intuitions, which unify his perceptions of the external world instantaneously with a value which is qualitative and not quantitative, and which he embodies in the works of his culture - those achievements which belong not only to one particular time but to all times, and mark the path of his upward progress.

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Men, Ideas, Perception

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