584 Cultural Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. Theresa Rebeck

Problems Looking Think Difficulty Our Cultural

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm. Thomas Frank

Business Way Taking True Longer Institutionalized Calling Cultural Account Task America Done Them Realm Organized

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images. Tibor Kalman

You Speak Matter Language Everyone Sophistication Understand Cultural Your Images

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' Tim Cahill

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Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively. Todd Haynes

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The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people. Todd Haynes

Time Gay People Cinema Worth Films AIDS Mine Defined Entirely Almost Term New Era Were Queer Cultural Very Different Experiences Regard Social Lives Associated

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war. Tom Brokaw

War Time Day Political Calm Before Innocence Summer Seems Both Unsettling Over Like Also Retrospect Climate Still Cultural Ferocious American Storm Which Midwest Vietnam Early

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. Tony Hillerman

Attitude Time Respect Sometimes Mind Thief Other Tribes Plot One Or Two More Toward Dead Make Readers Always Cultural Sites Burial Wanted Elements Aware Start Two

I want to help develop a visual and cultural vocabulary around surveillance. Trevor Paglen

Visual Vocabulary Develop Around Cultural Surveillance Want Help

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps 'photography,' as a meaningful cultural trope, is over. Trevor Paglen

Photography Words Practice Become Sense Field Think Other Inquiry About Longer Over Perhaps Makes Cultural Discreet In Other Words Meaningful

In human geography, we think about landscapes as being political, social, cultural, economic, and physical things all at the same time. And that's the way that I wanted to approach the question of state secrecy. Trevor Paglen

The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance. Tyler Cowen

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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends. Vaclav Klaus

Face Young Broad Monthly Writer He Major Also Became Editorial Issues Cultural Cultural Issues Friends Literary Board Interested Agreed Served

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. Vernor Vinge

Time Science Writing Took Months Easy Find Seemed Seems More Lead Like Ideas Science Fiction Cultural Began Very Decades Middle Eighteen Fiction Now Consciousness

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. Viola Davis

Love You Humanity Hate Communicate Sometimes Rise Above Else Kind See Rise Above How Cultural Than Person Forgive Any Anything Bigger Anything Else To Love Capacity Ills

The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what they want. But this plenitude threatens political and cultural authorities who believe in telling individuals what they can have rather than letting them choose for themselves. Virginia Postrel

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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand. Walter Kirn

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I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group. Wes Studi

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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. Will Durant

Freedom Promoting Civilization Cultural Order Activity

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