Culture Quotes - Page 98

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.

I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.

Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.

People ask a lot about how I can be a believer in a culture that perhaps is counter cultural to what you believe in. I've come to the conclusion that I'm able to be in this culture and in this industry and fruitful because I don't look to my circumstances to determine what I believe to be true about God.

Invest in creating the right culture and you won't be disappointed in the results.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.

The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.

Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.