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Cultural Quotes (page 56)

Bob Greene quote: "I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many..."
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. Bob Greene
Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change. Daniel Greenberg
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today. Daniel Greenberg
You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture. Andrew Greeley
You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful. Stedman Graham
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. Juan Goytisolo
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. Stephen Jay Gould
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians. Maxim Gorky
Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education. Tipper Gore
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate. Michel Gondry
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' Michel Gondry
Arthur Golden quote: "It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have..."
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. Arthur Golden
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. Arthur Golden
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest..."
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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