Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
“Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as… — James Baldwin 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
If we have an element of Americans here that reject western civilization, and that's a big element, that reject western civilization, then… — Steve King Copy Share Image
It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
In the broader American culture - the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books,… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
“Main Street is dead, which is no news to the families whose families ran family businesses on Main Street. When I returned...I… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“My secret weapon is my anger. That's what stimulates me as an artist. I want change. I want it yesterday. I'm pissed… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image
“In fact, the reason I felt immediately at home in America is precisely because American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
That is the beauty when I discovered the label 'Touched With Fire.' That book defined it for me, I could be that.… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing.… — Ryan Hurst Copy Share Image
The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Besides Christianity and specifically Catholicism being wonderful, Christmas is intrinsic to American culture and worth defending. Think of what happens at Christmas… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American… — Aaron David Miller Copy Share Image
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Joe had long resented how American culture had taught him to want. There were so many things pictured in ads, displayed in… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there… — Johnny Depp 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
Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying,… — Walter Kendrick Copy Share Image
“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
“The kids separated from their parents suffer the same trauma as the victims of human trafficking, therefore the administration that conducts such… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It made me sad to notice there's more American culture in society. It's about having their eyebrows groomed, pedicures, being more conscious… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
