Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium,… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
There are different levels of fame. There are the polite fans who quietly and respectfully approach you and ask for an autograph… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It sounds, especially in this day and age, sort of snobbish, but we left school at 16, nobody went on to university… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of repugnance, that if you wish to… — Dag Solstad Copy Share Image
There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my… — Lamman Rucker Copy Share Image
Australia has embraced migrants from all different races, making us one of the most multiracial nations on earth. Most have assimilated and… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was studying graphic design at the time, when negative scanners and all that stuff was coming out, and you could do… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
The commitment. I think that's the key quality of all successful people. You just have to keep at it. People who enjoy… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level… — Don Edward Beck Copy Share Image
There are justifiable case-by-case situations wherein an educator might exhibit targeted sensitivity to a student's unique circumstances. This is humane and laudable.… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However,… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor… — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by… — William Greider Copy Share Image
“Have you heard," he said "that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I think this kind of bohemianism doesn't really exist in the New York city anymore - the bohemianism that I was trying… — Richard Press Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone is looking for love, and we live in a culture where we have opportunities to fall in love far… — Leanne Shapton Copy Share Image
