This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I read The Onion, and I've read a lot of interviews that are very direct, often with people who are never direct.… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Cutoff culture,' 'the friendzone:' these are just neologisms used by men to mask or soften the reality that they have been -… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes:… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I didn't even know that there was a startup culture, that there were events with people who built businesses. When I started… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting things done. And this startup of culture is something entrepreneurs… — Clay Clark Copy Share Image
Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we're not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
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The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people,… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of… — Plato Copy Share Image
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to connect the East and West, trying to connect the dots; that's why a lot of my songs are… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that we promote a homosexual lifestyle and we impose it on people, but I am suggesting that it is… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had… — Liza Featherstone Copy Share Image
I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
My personal feeling about reboots is - I'm very against it. I feel bad for the pop culture of this generation because… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
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