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"You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you."
"Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean."
"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."
"Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back."
"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
"Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies."
"A competitive culture endures by tearing people down."
"When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery."
"Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them."
"Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture."
"Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured."
"Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube."
"While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea"
"The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected."
"A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other."
"I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity."
"A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth."
"So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's when you're affecting culture."
"Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of."
"Even a good marriage leaves people with longings for certain things their marriage will never be. So, do they accept that, make compromises, and say, "You can't have everything in life," which is what we always did? Or do they say, "I deserve more. I want to experience that thing and, you know, I have fifty more years to live than I used to." It's not necessarily that we have more desires today, but we do feel more entitled to pursue them. We live in this "right to happiness" culture, and yes, we do live half a century longer than we used to."
