Quotes of: Celebrity-culture Keyword

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

Quentin Bryce

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Rudolf Arnheim

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because...

Rufus Wainwright

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Tony Kushner

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

Rebellion is all we'll be talking about. Love is revolution, a kind of coup d'état and cultural reprogramming in its own little way.

The Hunger Pains: A Parody

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

Ice Island

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

<...> tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you’ve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didn’t know?

Jaden Baker

You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.

The Janus Stone

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Killosophy

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture