Quotes About Culture

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

We both speak Dutch and English. But we never could speak the same language.

jazz is punk for old people. I guess that explains it, because I don't like punk, either.

I mean, does anybody read anymore?

You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

Jazz je punk pro staré lidi.

Shakespeare trascends language

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

The silo culture forces managers to resolve lower-level issues, taking their time away from higher-priority customer and competitor concerns. Individual contributors, who could be resolving these issues, take less responsibility for results and perceive themselves as mere implementers and information providers.

To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

Studying culture without experiencing culture shock is like practicing swimming without experiencing water.

which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.

Every person's mental programming is partly unique, partly shared with others.

in the unique case of a country's geographic position, it is difficult to consider this factor as anything other than a cause, unless we assume that in prehistoric times peoples migrated to climates that fit their concepts of power distance, which is rather far-fetched.

Mass television-viewing had some rather less desirable effects on Americans as well. Graphs for those years show a clear change of direction: Americans read fewer books, did less

Nada Barry, widow of Bob Barry, had first arrived in Sag Harbor to carry out some sociological research. One of her observations, even back then, was that the typical American porch culture, whereby a family would sit on the large veranda at the front of the house in the evenings and chat with every passer-by, had disappeared completely in Sag Harbor by the

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Contrary to Le Corbusier's adage of modern architecture, a traditional Japanese house is not simply a "machine to live in," but a home for the soul.

It almost seems that 'culture' requires aspirants to participate according to their specific qualifications, to become adherents to an immense task of justifying a 'logic' that knows very well how to say practically everything and hardly knows how to listen.

I hate this Gladiator shit," Sabin muttered. "Yes, well, where do you think the Romans learned from?" Sabin sputtered for a minute. "You're trying to tell me Harpies are responsible for this? That the Romans learned from them?" "I must try only if you are lacking intelligence.

What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.