#culture

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#academic #background #culture #especially #ivy

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning! ↗

— Hermann Goering

#culture #hear #i #reach #whenever

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

#am #consume #consumer #contradiction #could

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

#always #appreciate #culture #death #even

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ↗

— George Gilder

#culture #dispensable #family #feels #his

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#culture #find #i #i do #like

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#culture #degree #find #hatred #lowest

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#culture #goal #highest #means #mind

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#agriculture #basis #everything #experience #higher