The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers. I'm hopeful that new business models will emerge that allow… — Al Gore 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
No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I told our employees several times, 'Let's focus on the end user, let's focus on committing to society, and focus on the… — Eric Yuan Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The culture generated by peer-orientation is sterile in the strict sense of that word: it is unable to reproduce itself or to… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted… — Sharif Abdel Kouddous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week.… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“Ours is a culture that reveres the ethos of absolute frankness and elevates truth-telling to moral perfection. Other cultures believe that when… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness… — Marco Vassi Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would ever go over to China for any reason - then to be able to go over… — Jimmer Fredette Copy Share Image
Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
What Chris Webber and the Fab Five - Jalen, Juwan, Ray, Jimmy and those guys - they created a culture, and Michigan… — Charles Woodson Copy Share Image