Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
By the middle of the century, retirement culture - exemplified by timeshares in Florida, the golf industry, and AARP membership - was… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The best way to prevent the homegrown-inspired attacks is literally positive engagement with Muslim communities. Making sure that any immigrant population that… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
Years ago, there was one Asian person in a soap and the entire Asian acting community was going for that role. Now,… — Mandip Gill Copy Share Image
If the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and… — Jacques Myard Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can… — Rah Digga Copy Share Image
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit,… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When you're a second- or third-generation migrant, your ties to your heritage can feel a little precarious. You're a foreigner here, you're… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic primarily by my mom's side of the family. But at 18, I found out there was an adoption… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Obviously geek culture is super influential, the web kind of started from a very geeky point of view because geeks are all… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think it's a deeper issue on the lack of communication in our culture in general. It's not abnormal to see a… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity… — Fabio Cannavaro Copy Share Image
Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you… — Tom Selleck Copy Share Image
It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
In European countries and some Asian countries I've been to, there's a lot less hesitation and skepticism when it comes to enjoying… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography,… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image