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I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.
— Samuel R. Delany
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
— Alice Walker
I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.
— Misha Collins
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
— Twyla Tharp
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
— Raymond E. Feist
Lahore was a different world in its own; the busy life, the rich history, the colourful culture, and the unfamiliar faces
— Javaria Waseem
He was a boom boom shake the room " kind of guy
— Saira Viola
It was a whiny culture, we were finding.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
— E.L. Doctorow
For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.
— Robert Harris
Oh, the humanity ... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture. — J.R. Ward
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.
— David Talbot
In the context of today, this WAS heroism.
— John Howard Griffin
But a man with a machine and inadequate culture - such as I was when I made my pond - is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
— Wendell Berry
We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
— Seinabo Sey
I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.
— Bruce Pavitt
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
— John Lothrop Motley
He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.
— Tsuneichi Miyamoto
I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
— Sarah Charlesworth
Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.
— Thomas J. Scheff
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
— Willa Cather
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
— Cameron Russell
China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
— Abigail Washburn
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
— Ishmael Reed
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
— Jackson Katz
The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.
— Charles Emmerson
I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.
— Leon Wieseltier
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.
— Barbara Haines Howett
It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas.
— Isaac Asimov
Agent Julianne was always looking for ways to spin things. She would have been better off owning a laundromat.
— Jonas Eriksson
For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
— Tahir Shah
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
— Roger Scruton
According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.
— Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
When Germany defeated Napoleon it was a disastrous to culture as when Luther defeated the Church.
— Will Durant
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
— Bill Condon
He was planning to rape me -""Why would he ever -"
"Because he knew he'd get away with it. — Courtney Summers
Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.
— Molly Ringle
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.
— Nichole Chase
I'm living in the heart of gun culture, but I'm not a gun guy. I didn't grow up with them; I was never a hunter; my dad was never a hunter.
— Jonathan Gottschall
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
— Larry Wall
Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.
— Jeffrey Wright
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
— Tom Perrotta
Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.
— Kurt Eichenwald
Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status.
— C.Z. Hazard
Education was central to reporting.
— David Halberstam
Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid.
— Alex Rodriguez
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That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.
— Giorgio Armani
I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
— Lisa Cholodenko
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
— Iain Banks
Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!
— Morrissey
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
— Salman Rushdie
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
— Shulamith Firestone
The culture of sexual violence was so pervasive that even the prison chaplain was sexually assaulting women when they came to the chapel.
— Bryan Stevenson
A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
culture was whacked.
— Kristen Ashley
Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring.
— Edmund Morris
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
— S.E. Hinton
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
— Walter Salles
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
— Eric Allin Cornell
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
— Nicholas A. Christakis
Culture was now largely a matter of how to keep people harmlessly distracted when they were not working.
— Terry Eagleton
