People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American… — Aaron David Miller Copy Share Image
The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“Although I have suggested that American culture tends to favor the side of independence over the side of inclusion (and I would… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing.… — Ryan Hurst Copy Share Image
It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Besides Christianity and specifically Catholicism being wonderful, Christmas is intrinsic to American culture and worth defending. Think of what happens at Christmas… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Anger is stereotypically normal for men because they are supposed to be aggressors. Women are supposed to be victims, and good victims… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“A century ago, in his 1905 classic work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that striving for… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
Gays are not liberated yet. Their struggle is just beginning in an American culture that is still essentially fearful about homosexuality. But… — Liz Smith Copy Share Image
“JG: Ha! I will get him Looking for Alaska and tell him this idea that a human being is more than a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see… — Cloris Leachman Copy Share Image
“During the racial confrontations of the 1960s, An American Dilemma encountered rising criticism from activists and scholars who disputed Myrdal's optimism about… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Don’t tread on me I’m not quite clear about how to formulate this question. It has to do with the nature of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“In fact, the reason I felt immediately at home in America is precisely because American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“My secret weapon is my anger. That's what stimulates me as an artist. I want change. I want it yesterday. I'm pissed… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image