Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
It's not a choice. Either I write or I don't, especially when I'm in a foreign culture. I've lived in London for… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical… — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
“A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics... But to learn from… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
We have a culture of political corruption in Jefferson City. We have corrupt politicians, well-paid lobbyists and special-interest insiders taking the state… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
Even though I'm not Jamaican, I've always loved Jamaican culture because, to me, it's the island of magic, it's the island of… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
My best audience and where I’m happiest is in the gay community. That’s where I feel the most accepted. It’s a community… — Katerina Graham Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Let's stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that's only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
