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Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.
The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.
I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.
The Lesbian is one of the least known members of our culture. Less is known about her - and less accurately - than about the Newfoundland dog.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.
I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.
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.
There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.
Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.
One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.
Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks for everything.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.
We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.
I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the streets to be first.
What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?
I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.
It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.
I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.
I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.
I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.