We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Growing up, the major institutions were school and church. We were taught our culture was no good. We didn't have sundances. The… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Luckily Ryan Murphy has a great track record of really having his finger on the pulse of pop culture in a way… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Chernobyl,' we're telling a story of a government that runs on lies the way cars run on fuel,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
“Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“...tradition helps man discover his true conscience and dignity; it allows a man to awaken his metaphysical essence and to accomplish his… — Raido Copy Share Image
My audience here in America is so eclectic. It's a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing… — Boy George Copy Share Image
You know, to me, that's going to influence the culture. They both influence each other - I know that - but, you… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I just want to do something special in Charlotte. I've been there eight years now, and we haven't really been consistent as… — Kemba Walker Copy Share Image
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it.… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Modernity and technology are not going to mitigate the need, the reality, of face-to-face combat, and I don't care who it is… — Todd Wilcox Copy Share Image
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
“Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
“A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it:… — Steve Turner Copy Share Image
Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions,… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
I think there is going to be a large paradigm shift in a few years, and it could either be to a… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
