Culture Quotes - Page 36

• When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

  Philip J. Corso

  Ongoing, Aliens, Affair

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• Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.

  Peter Drucker

  Breakfast, Christianity

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• The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.

  Deborah Tannen

  Agreement, People, Mind

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• There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

  Russell Peters

  Men, Race, Differences

  "TalkAsia" with Monita Rajpal, www.cnn.com. May 17, 2013.

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• I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.

  Russell Peters

  Race, Differences, Issues

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• People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.

  Russell Peters

  America, Race, Two

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

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• If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.188, Discovery House

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• The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

  Gabe Newell

  Firsts, Valve

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.

  Robert Graves

  People, Personality, Taste

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• Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

  Martin Amis

  Superficial, Characteristics, Decline

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• In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Passion, Ideas

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• I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

  Miranda Kerr

  Memorable, Japan, Different

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• Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Compassion, Sick, Suffering

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• We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

  Desmond Tutu

  Religious, Unique, Differences

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• Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the process of inquiry-of questioning, of opening-opens something in the human being which has not been touched in our culture. Everybody who is human has in themselves the potential of passionate inquiry after truth, and that's the transforming force.

  Jacob Needleman

  Real, Inquiry, Passionate

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• Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers.

  L. Jon Wertheim

  Basketball, Beautiful, Spring

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• I think I live inside the plane! I never have time to unpack; I'm always leaving in two days again. I travel a lot, and at the beginning it was really fun. The first time I went inside a plane, I was 15 years old and I had so much fun. I like to travel all over the world and learn [about] new cultures. Not that many people have the opportunity to do that.

  Adriana Lima

  Fun, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Diversity, Goal

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• Invest in creating the right culture and you won't be disappointed in the results.

  Kay Koplovitz

  Creating, Results, Disappointed

  Kay Koplovitz (2014). “Been There, Run That”, p.165, RosettaBooks

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• There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how you behave. It's all three things, and nailing them makes you a contender.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Wall, Three Things, Pillars

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!

  Lee Carroll

  Spiritual, Years, Law

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.

  K-Maro

  Differences, Hip Hop, Trends

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age, any religion, and without any philosophical predisposition.

  John Hagelin

  Philosophical, Brain, Age

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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