I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
“They may share certain cultural signifiers—money, a federal government, entertainment; it’s the same land, obviously—but the only things that give it the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and… — Matthew Settle Copy Share Image
“So, drenched and downing champagne, I danced a rather demented waltz-cum-jig with a young bride I'd never met before in a place… — Colin Irwin Copy Share Image
The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
I see the war problem as an economic problem, a business problem, a cultural problem, an educational problem - everything but a… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced… — Severo Ochoa Copy Share Image
Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt,… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a… — Maurizio Seracini Copy Share Image
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
As all of us know, health is deeply intertwined with culture: what we eat, how active we are, how much we sleep.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image.… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of… — Phil Crosby Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the 21st century is how people deal with cultural history. We don't necessarily feel like there are discrete categories.… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of… — Keorapetse Kgositsile Copy Share Image
The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Besides finding a great place to stay, it's important for me to find at least one cultural destination to visit, other than… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural… — Tom Cochrane Copy Share Image
