Top 1200 Pop Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

Books marketing has moved from the review culture to a preview culture.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

The AFL and NRL have done an awesome job every season in acknowledging Australia's culture and Indigenous culture.

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Luckily Ryan Murphy has a great track record of really having his finger on the pulse of pop culture in a way that very few people do. And he is able to work things into stories in a ridiculously timely way - sometimes, before anybody else thinks it's going to be a thing, he is able to create these moments on television. I was thrilled to get to work with him, and I knew he would be able to tell that story with that same energy.

There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.

It's impossible to overstate how important social media has been to me and the development of my career. The fact that I can go and play venues that hold 25,000 people and sell them out is crazy.I don't have music on the radio. I'm not a pop culture icon. I'm just this kid making dance music. And yet I still can sell out massive arenas. It's truly incredible, and I think a lot of that is because of social media.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.

I want to be a part of a vibrant culture and have a more open culture.

Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it's tainted by the people that make these shows.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.

Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.

[Mexican people] have a culture, a culture that goes back millennia.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.

Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

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.

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

Shakespeare is as naturally a part of American culture as it is the British culture; the Americans have a natural interest in their heritage.

Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.