Top 1200 Celebrity Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular culture' is still culture, Shakespeare was once as popular as any of today's icons with the common people.

A culture of love and kinship has knitted Mississippi families together, and tied them to each other, for ages. It is what makes us special in a fast-paced and transient world. I will defend that culture against the erosion that frays societies.

Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.

When I entered the jungle for 'I'm A Celebrity,' my confidence was so low.

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

I'm in the public eye. I'm a celebrity and a football player.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I might be a celebrity but I belong to the humble category.

Nobody wants to hear celebrity complain

I would never think of myself as a celebrity.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.

Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

The hard part of being a celebrity is staying one!

I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

My earliest celebrity crush was/is Nick Jonas.

As we look at the chapters of Daniel, we recognize that the words of Daniel 1:21 ring true today: "Thus Daniel continued...." Daniel continued through a culture unlike his own; one that lost its way. Today, you and I are living in a culture that's losing its way. It's good to know that just as in Daniel's day, God is looking for men and women of integrity to help confront in love a culture that's losing its way and to point it back to him.

I have a good connection with people from America that come to my shows. It's more the American culture. I like the culture, so I want to spend more time there and make more friends and have some fun.

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.

The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.

My privilege as a celebrity doesn't disallow me pain.

In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both have in common is their momentum - once winners' or losers' habits and culture take hold, they tend to perpetuate themselves.

My favorite celebrity is definitely Miley Cyrus.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

I might be a celebrity but I've still got to have the dosh.

I don't really go into shock around celebrity.

I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

Even when I was a kid, I thought of myself as a celebrity.

I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful. They have had the kind of effect on culture that a hit band has. Just look at The Gap's Khaki swing ads, which were music videos. They had this tremendous impact on the industry - suddenly everything started looking like Gap ads and it became difficult to know who was co-opting whom and who was creating culture.

What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

We've got so much Korean culture and so much Western culture in us.

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s own culture but within oneself.

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.