The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee. — Edward VII Copy Share Image
Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
The bigger artists are definitely looking and paying attention to the culture and the style of bounce music. — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture. — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that… — Hozier Copy Share Image
You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and… — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions' mind-set. And champions' mind-set isn't always about winning. It's about… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
It was life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“I think the church has done a pretty good job at reaching the "down and outers" but not a good job at… — Keith Craft Copy Share Image
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions, — Staffan de Mistura Copy Share Image
The way you raise the profile of an issue is by making the issue cool and relevant in pop culture. — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Even where people in different cultures agree they may all have gone wrong. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
It's always nice coming to India with the fantastic culture that is here. — Kane Williamson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Haitian culture. Everything we did was from the Haitian culture. — Sony Michel Copy Share Image
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in… — Martin Yan Copy Share Image