The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure.… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
When I came to the States, I still wanted to be an electric guitar player. But moved to Santa Fe in '86.… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
The foreign audiences are somewhat surprised and happy to find an American film that asks questions about American culture. There's a certain… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation… — Patrick Holford Copy Share Image
I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the challenges is to create an equally positive, satisfying sense of femininity and feminine identity in a different way so… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws.… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
I don't think I have enough of an interest in today's cultural mood to connect with or reject it. I'm compelled by… — Jorge Elbrecht Copy Share Image
When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think there are so many young girls out there who may be discouraged by the images they see in magazines or… — Kelly Knox Copy Share Image
If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Americans have a hard time writing moms. I'll get a script and everything's really great and well-drawn, but the mom is like… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I have participated as a leader in many organizations where the leadership culture was just mean - ugly, where competitiveness, and destructive… — James Merlino Copy Share Image
Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
I love the culture of animation. What stop-motion has in common with live-action is that it has many of the same departments.… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
