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“Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.”

“When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days.”

Thinking Culture Factories Old Days Think Of Me Sausage

“Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.”

Thinking Different Values Culture Creative Wall Industry England South Scotland Hadrian Creative Industries

Author:Sara Sheridan

“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”

Use Culture Mankind Glory Structure Fruit Rebellion Assault Rotten Wisdom And Experience

Author:Judith Malina

“How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.”

People America Humanity Culture Existence Claims Ironic Persecuted Inhumanity Repressed

Author:Sonny Rollins

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

America Culture Rooted

Author:Sonny Rollins

“All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.”

Two Whole Humor Funny Culture Taken Four Wife China My Wife Bottles Lamps Intuitive Donkey Condiments Chianti

Author:Peter Shaffer

“Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.”

“I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.”

“Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.”

World Culture Materials Ultimate Impressed Inferiority Material Things

Author:Alexander Crummell

“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.”

“You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!”

Littles Culture Sides Stage Brown Jerry Chuck Berries

Author:Bill Wyman

“A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.”

People Humans Reality Culture Process Rights Standards Aim Human Rights Setting Settings Evolve Abstract Living Reality

Author:Mary Robinson

“More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.”

Children Has Beens Stories Seems Turns Culture Father Acting Pieces Advice Importance New Father

Author:David Blankenhorn

“When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Women will cooperate until they attain certain goals. Then one will begin to destroy the other.”

Men Certain Culture Goal Dog Cooperation Liberated Assassination Competitiveness

Author:Alice Neel

“We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.”

Way Has Beens Suffering Dies Culture Particular Terrible Disease Terrible Things

Author:Alan Watts

“It's hard to see blessings in a violent culture”

Hard Culture Blessing Violent

Author:Common

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.”

“The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.”

Littles Culture Term Economy Changed Development Labor South Folks Traditional Clinging Industrialization Modernization Mechanization Urbanization Antebellum

Author:C. Vann Woodward

“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.”

People World Should Culture Poor Teach Sun Ready Sells Hungry

Author:Aubrey Menen

“Uncontainable is a love story. Kip and Sharon's love for each other, their precious family, their business journey of joy and, most of all, their pure and uncontainable love for their employees and their families is clear and happy proof that the future of business is building love cultures. Oh, and when you have love on the inside customers shower uncontainable love back at ya from the outside. Love on brother!”

Stories Joy Culture Clear Journey Building Brother Pure Customers Proof Love Story Employee Showers Sharon

Author:Roy Spence

“The question remains, as it will always remain, one of ultimate authority. Who are you going to follow in your life? Who will command your allegiance? Christ...or culture? You really can't have it both ways.”

Way Culture Christ Authority Ultimate Remains Command Allegiance

Author:Stu Weber

“The nurturing flow of life, extreme intelligence, beauty, and perfect harmony are active in every one of us. Yoga was developed in ancient wisdom culture to gently reveal what we already have. Read this book.”

Book Culture Perfect Yoga Flow Harmony Ancient Extremes Active Nurturing Ancient Wisdom Perfect Harmony

Author:Mark Whitwell

“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”

Thinking World Book Sometimes Seems Order Culture Window Glasses Wide Noses Mainstream Plates Living My Life Bookstores Circulation I Live My Life Slick Mainstream Culture

Book:Books & Life

Source: Books & Life

“We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.”

Trying Humans Littles Moving Culture Loses Machines Rate Speed Contact Pace Robots Humanness

Author:Tian Dayton

“I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.”

Thinking Culture Happened Overcoming Defeat Following Decades Canada Confederation

Author:Stephen Harper

“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.”

Ifs Want Together Culture Differences Freedom Class Talent Building Personality Diversity Economics Distance Committed Sexuality Liberation Aspiration Working Together

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.”

Humans Two Culture Identity Members Elements Belonging Ingredients Human Experience Laboratory

Book:Families and Family Therapy

Source: Families and Family Therapy

“There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.”

Thinking Way Culture Unique Borders Canada

Author:Stephen Harper

“I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.”

Important Culture Pops Cynical Pop Culture

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Culture Actors Poor Cases Theater Blame Culture Change

Author:Christopher Reeve

“I try not to let the material aspects of different cultures distract me from getting to the essence of the person I'm photographing. Whether it's a man or a woman. Wherever they're from, I try not to let social status or cultural background affect me or affect the person. I strip all those things away to get down to the essence of the human being, the person.”

Men Trying Humans Persons Different Culture Social Human Beings Materials Aspect Essence Backgrounds Different Cultures Social Status

Author:Mario Sorrenti

“I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.”

I Can Culture Watches Tvs Theater Pops Curious Garbage Pop Culture

Author:Michael Kors

“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.”

Shows Film Culture Numbers Growing Up Growing Television Huge Periods Twenties Mythology Bunch Television Shows Roaring Underworld Roaring Twenties

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward.”

Feels Country Dream Moving Culture Century Ready Professors

Author:Christopher Bollen

“For me, to take a movie and travel the world and go and work with these cultures and an international cast and have this spy thriller that's not just about character but also action and suspense, they're very challenging films as a producer to make, creating stories, creating set pieces that serve this character [Ethan Hunt].”

World Character Stories Action Film Culture Challenges Pieces Creating International Casts Producers Suspense Hunts Spy Thrillers Travel The World Creating Stories

Author:Tom Cruise

“I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.”

Ifs Men Kind Important Ideas Whole Culture Father Stuff Air Effects Sells Selling Uncles Salesman Boyhood

Author:Arthur Miller

“There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.”

Art Matter Culture Lows Streams What Matters Good Art Highs And Lows Mingling

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.”

“Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.”

People Culture New York Various Celebrate Japan Asia Tokyo

Author:Pharrell Williams

“Once Indians become more visible in pop culture and thus more humanized, then it actually chips away at discrimination. Especially after 9/11, it became important for those stories and that human element, for the Muslim, the Hindu, the Sheikh communities to be heard. That's what I hope I get at with the music.”

Humans Important Stories Culture Community Heard Elements Pops Discrimination Visible Chips Pop Culture

Author:Himanshu Suri

“People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.”

People Thinking Years Country Culture Animal Race Horse Familiar Relate Collectives

Author:Steven Spielberg

“History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.”

People Looks Young Culture Rooms Media Tough Busy Contemporary Looking Back Fleeting Tough Times Consuming

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".”

Culture Pops Categories Pop Culture Unwanted Gravestone

Author:Tim Burton

“I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.”

Children Different Culture Environment Our Children Your Children Beneficial Different Cultures Different Environments

Author:Teri Hatcher

“When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.”

Thinking Men Looks Persons Play Culture Murder Truman

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we wind up very highly sexual, and then we thug it out. Then things get a little funny again, with comedy and that kind of thing.”

Kind Littles Culture Grows Comedy Stage Wind Conscious Hip Hop Hips Breathing Hops Thug

Author:KRS-One

“I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.”

People Thinking Should Soul Problem Culture Names Black Consciousness Talking Identity Products Slavery Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Black People One Word

Author:KRS-One

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