Culture Quotes - Page 94

In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that's what I've done ever since.

For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.

They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

I think our culture promotes fear and shame.

The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company's culture.

Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.

Your brand is your culture.

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.