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I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture. — Amy Tan

The advanced interstellar culture operates on a barter system. Never saw that one coming. — John Sandford

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends. — A.P.

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture. — Ann Demeulemeester

I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched. — Anna L. Davis

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan

What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view. — Peter Conrad

Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color. — Brad Goreski

Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can't teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying paintings. — Gregory Cochran

China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation. — Andre Vltchek

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes. — Judah Friedlander

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible. — Coolio

The transference of culture in time can, in large measure, be described as the conservation of sign systems serving as a control on behavior. — Doris Bradbury

Purpose is not an add-on, it's not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes — Richard Branson

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema." — Jonas Mekas

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy. — Richard Louv

Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ... — Ken Follett

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. — George Santayana

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. — Jonathan Haidt

Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture. — John Piper

It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names. — Chuck Klosterman

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront. — David Talbot

She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber. — Sherry Turkle

On every travel, we saw beautiful landscapes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess. — Michael Lewis

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film. — Mads Mikkelsen

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity. — Shulamith Firestone

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God? — Richard Stearns

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. — Bradford Cox

Well, when it comes to inspiration, I come from San Diego originally - it's an un-media-hyped, sleepy sort of town, big on beach culture you know? — Gary Jules

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly. — Billy Wilder

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim. — Susie Orbach

On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler. — Tony Curtis

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls ... the materialistic culture ... is now on the way to its close. — Rudolf Steiner

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides. — John Burroughs

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders. — Alice Albinia

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages. — Shawn Amos

Never rest on past success. Create something better. — Ron Kaufman

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. — Robert Wyatt

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. — Frantz Fanon

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate. — Andy Hargreaves

For a company culture to change, the top executives must be on board with changing it. This means they must understand what the change means for them. — Janet Gregory

I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm. — Jason Najum

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people. — Aasif Mandvi

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. — K.d. Lang

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving. — Corey Feldman

Seeing a Kingdom culture established on earth is the dream of God, and it must become the dream of His people. — Bill Johnson

The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing. — Zubin Mehta

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?' — John Cleese

I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture. — Maisie Williams

Why, why in the blue-green world write this sort of thing? Funny written culture, I guess; we pass things on. — Annie Dillard

Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference. — Franz Wisner

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now. — Brad Bird

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. — Jaron Lanier

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. — Stephen Vizinczey

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture. — Stefan Zweig

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp

You must spend more time on building your culture than on everything else. Culture is what produces wins over time. — Jon Gordon

When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well. — Maureen Murdock

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no. — Bill Walton

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

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage. — Tom Jones

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) — Beth Fine

When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over. — Steve Stoute

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture ... that's me. — Eminem

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog. — Desiderius Erasmus

I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact. — Adrian McKinty

Although our culture seems to worship being busy, constant activity will slowly undermine our perspective on life and kill our souls. — Sally Clarkson

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of. — Elbert Hubbard

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. — John Dryden

Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM. — Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. — Shakti Gawain

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture. — Dallin H. Oaks

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. — John Hodgman

Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system. — A. J. Jacobs

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church. — Kevin Vanhoozer

One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture. — Sarah Hall

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s. — Lisa Loeb

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture — Jacque Fresco

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. — Margaret Mead

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. — Yo-Yo Ma

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture. — Eleanor Clift

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater. — LeCrae

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture — Gary Snyder

The Bible's emphasis on right relationships is a challenge to our culture's destructive focus on the self — Guy Brandon

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, "Put a jumper on — Amanda Craig

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large. — Kevin Kwan

The fundamental keys to the culture of any organization can only be achieved when everyone is on the same page. — Tony Dungy

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures. — Amory Lovins

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment. — Pope Francis

Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween. — Michael Almereyda

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. — Edward Abbey

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything? — Bob Woodward

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. — Lawrence Lessig

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. — Jonathan Ive