Culture Quotes - Page 110

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked in a death match, was about slavery. They'll argue it was about economics, and they're right only because one of those economies was a slave economy. They'll argue it was about culture, and they're right only because one of those cultures was a slave culture.

The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If you come from a strong culture, you can decide what you agree with and what you don't agree with. If you're given a blank canvas, it's almost harder in life.

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.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.

I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with the service industry in America - you can't make up for that. Once you get a chance to travel a lot, you start to realize when that waitress comes back and asks you if you want some more to drink, that's an important moment. Nobody else does that!

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

Culture is Anarchistic if it is alive at all.