#culture

I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place. ↗

— Brad Pitt

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Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

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It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim ↗

— Jason Najum

#culture-critique #essay #humor #inspirational #memoir

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#i #i think #institution #kind #know

At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned. ↗

— Phil Knight

#became #because #become #bit #culture

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#leadership #leadership

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. ↗

— Quintilian

#barren #consequently #derive #devoid #more

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#been #culture #had #historic #i

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. ↗

— Gabriel Zaid

#composure #culture #unread #age

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics