My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I… — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.” — Tsuneichi Miyamoto Copy Share Image
One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“The problem with all of this, as historians advise us, is that the institutionalization of the systems that produce the values upon… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“There are cultures on Earth that are more alien than some of the aliens in SF. More extensive quote: "the theme of… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big top and little shorts and… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
We're in a culture where everything is either consumption or production, so child care is either a very, very bad-paying form of… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
When it comes to melodies, production, and sound in pop music, people try to be formulaic and solely concerned with what's resonant… — Kelela Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that the U.K. and Europe don't have the kind of culture which esteems legal protections enforced by the courts in… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it. — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
“What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other… — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Milkbars were not only a crucial part of Australian food culture for nearly half a century, but also influenced the way many… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas. — Lynne Doughtie Copy Share Image