Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies.… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Superman is a traditional archetype in our culture, this all-powerful but benign doer of good, protector and friend. If he could succumb… — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
To maintain our entrepreneurial spirit, we have to create a culture in which everyone remembers that every order, big or small -… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
I grew up in Long Beach during a transitional phase. It's a lot better now, but there was a time where it… — Giveon Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about… — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the events of the… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
On the plane the other day, there was man who was wearing a tank top, shorts and Birkenstocks - and I don't… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“We use other people's brains to navigate the world: to acquire skills and practices, and to access knowledge systems of long-dead strangers.… — Mark Earls Copy Share Image
I made 'Ricki Lake' as a big love show for the American culture: big jars of mayo and ketchup and industrial stuff… — Netta Barzilai Copy Share Image
I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that was isolated for a long time - I have my own story to tell, in my… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
We have harmonies, folk songs, and compositions attached to each occasion - ranging from birth, harvest, to our festivals. Our country thrives… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
This kind of stuff, it wasn't the cool thing when I was growing up. Now, pop culture is comic books, super-hero movies,… — Mike Daniels Copy Share Image
The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan. — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures.… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason,… — Will Gluck Copy Share Image
SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
