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Quotes About Culture

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
~ Elton John
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.
~ Johan Huizinga
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
~ Aldous Huxley
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
~ Nancy Spain
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
~ Josephine Baker
Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.
~ Marcella Hazan
Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.
~ Raymond Williams
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
~ Russell Baker
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
~ S. J. Perelman
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
~ Christopher Lasch
I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.
~ Brother Ali
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
~ Ike Turner
Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
~ Taiye Selasi
My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.
~ Hugh Nibley
Well, follow who you want to follow. It depends on what your fantasies are. You understand. People have different fantasies in life. The suburban culture. Always dream of being gangstas.
~ MC Hammer
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.
~ Mo Yan
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
~ Nicolas Cage
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
~ Louise Erdrich
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
~ Margaret Mead
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Great artists have no country.
~ Alfred de Musset
I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.
~ Mike Singletary
Life in California is beautiful.
~ Oscar Nunez