For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy.… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry. — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
We can be inspired by and renew our ancient culture of sustainable design and living. Why not set standards for producers and… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common… — Illmaculate Copy Share Image
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I know from my experience in theater that the crowd is different every night; the reactions, the tension. But it's true for… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
“Every woman is a culture. Daarom is iedere vrouw van nature een meesterwerk dat niet vernietigd kan worden, en al helemaal niet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses'… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Fashion, in a way, has become like pop culture today. With all of the communications and the Internet and the designers doing… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I think that youth culture is now very deliberately designed by both corporate entities and by governments to not involve people directly.… — Thea Gilmore Copy Share Image
A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
When you get a record attendance for What Culture Pro Wrestling - or just recently with Matt Cross, we did a record… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
Our culture places a very high value on storytelling, and the more that Catholic writers are able to master that craft, the… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in a family with a very unique culture and lifestyle - being exposed to being a Gracie… — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel.… — Anne Burrell Copy Share Image
THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable,… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
