The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole… — Alex North Copy Share Image
Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it!… — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I… — Mick Jones Copy Share Image
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history.… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Well, I think by and large, certainly in terms of cinema, American culture dominates our cinema, mainly in the films that are… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I want to create a culture of life where every innocent human life is welcome to the world. I know those are… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Soul Food: Classic Cuisine from the Deep South that it’s “a legacy clearly steeped in tradition; a way of life that has… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Berklee played a huge role in shaping my music. On an academic level, I learned a lot about vocal technique and culture.… — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to… — Tom Hunter Copy Share Image
As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip… — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is… — Frederic Harrison Copy Share Image
In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid… — Kurt Schrader Copy Share Image
Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you,… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
It's an honour to have been invited to perform in India for 'Vh1 Hip Hop Hustle.' This only reconfirms the impact Hip… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image