#culture

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#consumerism #culture #demand #depth #marketing

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#culture #idea #our #permeates #still

Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness. ↗

— Paz Vega

#asian #asians #beauty #culture #different

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#cultures #going #i #like #little

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#carried #culture #dirt #drive #extreme

Culture clash is terrific drama. ↗

— Ken Follett

#culture #drama #terrific

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#complex #culture #elegant #google #i

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#because #crimes #culture #effort #genocide

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native. ↗

— Wes Jackson

#education #native #education

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures. ↗

— George Crumb

#countries #cultures #ever #i #increasing