Culture Quotes — Page 30

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

“So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.”

Culture Civilization Individual

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Tipper Gore

Activist

“Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.”

Culture Worst Materialistic

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Sheena Iyengar

Psychologist

“What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.”

Different Interesting Culture

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Stephen King

Author

“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.”

Trying Play Culture

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Robin Sharma

Author, Speaker

“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.”

Thinking Culture Directors

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Steve Scott

Filmmaker

“In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.”

Culture Church Backyards

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Lady Gaga

Singer, Actress

“Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.”

Thinking Culture Musician

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Zendaya

Actress, Singer, Model

“Social Media has now become a part of our culture - you are either a part of it, or you ignore it.”

Media Culture Social Media

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

“I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.”

Culture Religion Demand

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Karen O

Musician

“I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.”

Culture Hunger Synthetic

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Zora Neale Hurston

Novelist, Anthropologist

“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”

Culture Generations Jamaica

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

“The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.”

Culture Atmosphere Accomplishment

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