Quotes of: Culture Keyword

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Chris Jordan

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

Julie Bishop

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

Branford Marsalis

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Garry Trudeau

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

Hugh Dancy

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

Jean Shepherd

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Johan Huizinga

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Bernstein

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

Mark Strand

I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

Lykke Li

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

Ashley Judd

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

Alan Sugar

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Walter Isaacson

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

Pat Buchanan

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertain...

Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn't just consume ecosystems, it obliterates them, it murders them, one after another. This culture is an eco...

Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground... Little attempt is made to pass...

Becoming Native to This Place

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made ...

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Preserving cultural diversity is considered a supreme virtue today, but the members of the diverse subcultures don't always see it that way. People have wants and needs, and when cultures rub shoulders, people in one culture are bound to notice when ...

Stephen Pinker

[C]ulture, for all its importance, is not some miasma that seeps into people through their skin. Culture relies on neural circuitry that accomplishes the feat we call learning. Those circuits do not make us indiscriminate mimics but have to work in s...

Stephen Pinker

People have come to me over the years and said to me: 'I admire the culture of Starbucks. Can you come give a speech and help us turn our culture around?' I wish it were that easy. Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based o...

Howard Schultz