I was on an army show, and in the army - especially in Korean culture - there's a very, very strict hierarchy.… — Amber Liu Copy Share Image
I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“Grandfather Shi must have loved Ita Thao. His relatives were certainly making his last hours there memorable ones. Though the ceremony did… — Joshua Samuel Brown Copy Share Image
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an… — Jose Andres Copy Share Image
[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overstate how important social media has been to me and the development of my career. The fact that I… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
Build creative cultures, and work with purpose to unleash the creativity of your team. Creativity is the most valuable natural resource in… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Even with my family, I feel sort of 'other.' I'm the only one of my siblings who wasn't born in Jamaica. For… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the… — MURS Copy Share Image
“We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.'… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for the American culture, because to get back to the real root… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image