The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This is what I say to people: I'm not in the music industry. I'm in show business. So when people are like,… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Ask your loyal customers for positive comments about your products and your service. Then post these testimonials where other customers and prospects… — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
The culture of New York is just impossible to replicate. Its such an incredible feeling to be walking on the streets of… — Max Schneider Copy Share Image
I come from a culture where we wear white for weddings. In India, it's different. But I really feel that there should… — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a… — Meryl Streep 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 communities like mine, we send our best and brightest to our armed forces. Our culture's elites, on the other hand, encourage… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
[On Los Angeles:] This city is a hundred years old but try and find some trace of its history. Every culture is… — Anne Finger Copy Share Image
“...when we understand how much culture and history and the world outside of the individual matter to professional success--then ... We have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct.… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization. — David Kim Copy Share Image
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Performing to famous Bollywood tracks is always an appealing opportunity as that plays an essential role in defining our culture. And when… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you've got a dirty job, the best way is to help each other and then you'll create this culture of mutual… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV… — Rebecca De Mornay Copy Share Image
“Almost all traditions point a big finger in the same direction, no matter what our background, one must only look up and… — Robert Bonomo Copy Share Image
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Why is London particularly attractive for artists? It's partly this incredible concentration of organizations that have a long history but also the… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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