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“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.”

People Writing Reality Form Culture Left Wonder Comedy Tvs Standards Romantic Harder Entertainment Genre Classic Legitimacy Reality Tv

Author:Nancy Meyers

“The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.”

Form Culture Roles Who We Are

Author:Wendell Pierce

“Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.”

“As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.”

Art Might Today Form Suffering Culture Christianity Particular Hungry Visuals Appetite Stimulus Protestants Anorexia Sensory Visual Art Overload Wholesomeness

Author:John Walford

“When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.”

People Form Culture Dying Not Afraid Insecure New Cultures Old Culture

Author:Rudolf Bahro

“In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.”

Thinking Needs Form Culture Fiction Conflict Creating Science Fiction Western Aliens Robots Suspicious Hubris Western Culture Creating Something

Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

Form Culture Grows Nature Wealth Animal Growing Up Intimate Vegetables Association Irreplaceable

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.”

Wells Littles Whole Problem Form Culture Stuff Bits Can Do Television Listening Little Bit Various Australia Accents No Problem American Culture Tricky Whole Family

Author:Guy Pearce

“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Long Art Enough Form Used Culture Fields First Time Appreciation Make Sense Modernism

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.”

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Author:John Muir

“Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.”

People Way Age Form Culture Games Quality Huge Embrace Theatre Video Storytelling Artistic Cinema Gaming Computer Games Best Artist

Author:Andy Serkis

“As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world.”

“Today, I join King Abdullah in Paris to stand in solidarity with the people of France in their darkest hour...To stand in unity against extremism in all its forms and to stand up for our cherished faith, Islam. And so that the lasting image of these terrible events is an unprecedented outpouring of sympathy and support between people of all faiths and cultures.”

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Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Faces Form Order Culture Evil Struggle Violence Goodness Opposites Be Good Brutal

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”

“If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?”

Ifs Men Form Culture Natural Environment Particular Balance Plant Why Not Association Ecology Natural Environment Habitat

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.”

Art Form Values Culture Language Clear Survival Intellectual Capacity Imaginative Employing

Book:The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

Source: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

“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.”

World Firsts Form Culture Picks Confusion Defined Perceive Blooming Outer Worlds

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.”

World Way Form Culture Interest Critics Academic Surprising Classifying

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. "Atheistic humanism" became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today's European Union, a kind of dehumamism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction. Post-Christian European culture is already post-cultural and, with its surging Muslim populations, will soon be post-European.”

“In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.”

Knows Humans Art Form Culture Modern Art Is Ancient Engaged Hunters Human Society Prehistoric Hunter Gatherers

Book:Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why

Source: Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why

“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.”

People Ifs Ends Form Culture Process Community Sophisticated Disciple Adrenaline Junkie Adventurer

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.”

People Way May Made Ends Past Form Culture House Sex Understanding Effort Secret Poverty Path Greater Dying Circumstances Suicide Historical Bounds Yield British History

Author:David Cannadine

“Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.”

Art Philosophy Form Culture History Youth Blessed Speed Boat

Author:Epicurus

“If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.”

Ifs Art Form Culture Bigger Finance

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.”

World Way Wells Art Form Culture Grows Growing Up Style Grew Grew Up Dresses Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:LeCrae

“The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.”

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Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE

Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE

“Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.”

World Way Mind Heart Self Helping Form Culture Religious Teach Who You Are Prepared Heart And Mind

Author:Richard Rohr

“Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.”

World Mind Art States America Form Culture Modern Hollywood Contribution State Of Mind

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.”

Way Art Use Form Culture Chance Danger Materials Highest Locals Imitating

Author:Miles Franklin

“a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.”

Form Culture Mass Diets Steady Deprivation Popular Culture Mass Culture

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.”

“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.”

Humans Long Form Culture Voice Silence Heard Ocean Blue Medicine Jazz Edges Apollo Whales Dolphins Hunted Human Voice Delphi

Author:Jay Griffiths

“Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.”

“Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.”

“The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that its the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.”

Firsts Art Important Facts Form Culture Conditions Particular First Time Performances Important Things Jazz Dedicated American Culture Exhibits Lincoln Center

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.”

Men Want Children Form Culture Three Black Justice Despair Rap Criminals Justice System Criminal Justice Rap Music Criminal Justice System

Author:Robert Bly

“No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.”

Matter Form Law Culture Evidence No Matter What Court Lowest Testimony Eyewitnesses

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”

“Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.”

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“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.”

“Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.”

Form Culture Expensive Respectability

Author:Mason Cooley

“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.”

“Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.”

Art Self Form Culture Self Esteem Increase University Esteem Museums Dumbing Down

Author:Denis Dutton

“One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.”

Form Culture Speak Common Myth Simplest Similarity

Author:Carl Jung

“The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.”

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Author:Pierre Trudeau

“It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.”

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