Culture Quotes - Page 29

• I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.

  Elif Safak

  Government, Democracy, Majority

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc.

  Michala Petri

  Thinking, Germany, Etc

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• And, the sets that they built are just so beautiful. It's like going to a completely foreign country and experiencing a new culture that you've never seen before, especially at Camelot. It's just so magical. Personally, it's just so much more interesting than wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and walking around somebody else's house.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Beautiful, Country, Jeans

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

  James Ellroy

  World, Way, Path

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are not fully representative of the final product. But in the same breath, I would say there's no shot in the teaser that I'm not really happy with.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Thinking, Hands, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.

  A. R. Rahman

  Thinking, Play, Together

  "Composer A.R. Rahman Interview 127 HOURS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 28, 2010.

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• I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

  Steve Antin

  Beautiful, Mass Culture, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.

  Vincent Cassel

  Thinking, Gangster Movie, Gangsters

  Source: collider.com

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• I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

  Will Gluck

  World, Speak, Reason

  Source: collider.com

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• I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

  Cornel West

  Strong, Believe, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Grateful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Men, Race

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a mash up of so many different genres and things that kind of, sort of are just part of youth culture right now. Music and action and video games, and it's kind of amazing to see it all piled into one film.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Fun, Mash Up, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless.

  Jill Soloway

  Talking, People, Trying

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from “Six Feet Under." He didn”t really like to have too many pop culture references because they don”t really hold up after a few years.

  Jill Soloway

  Years, Feet, Balls

  "‘Transparent’ creator: Streaming shows are ‘inventing a new art form’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 14, 2015.

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• Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Japan, Games, Categories

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Father, Thinking, Japan

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Fashion, Young Generation, Generations

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• That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

  Gwenno

  Running, Believe, Language

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think the place fed me completely. Not only was I in Uganda, but I was around many people who had a personal relationship with Idi Amin. I was eating the food constantly. I was culturally hanging out with the people. You can't help but absorb the energy, and try to get inside the culture.

  Forest Whitaker

  Thinking, Uganda, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I was pretty much consumed by this character. Even when I was off, I was continually searching to find something else new about [Idi] Amin, and to embed myself deeper into the culture to the point that, in the end, I was so entrenched that I could tell what tribe someone was from just by looking at them.

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, Tribes, Ends

  Source: aalbc.com

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• To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, Teenager, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.

  Jello Biafra

  Body, Slipping, Bones

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.

  Jello Biafra

  Independent, Media, Usa

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

  Chuck D

  Voice, Government, Hip Hop

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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