I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
Middle Eastern Muslim countries are not only important for Afghanistan due to common culture and faith, but also because of economic benefits. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
One of the effects Pixar University has on the culture is that it makes people less self-conscious about their work and gets… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
“It is our entire culture, the way it runs on money, rewards inhumanity, encourages disconnection and isolation, causes great inequality and suffering,… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
“Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory… — David C. Cassidy Copy Share Image
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered… — Lester Thurow 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
In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is… — Stromae Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It was a big step for me to take, going away from my family to go and play in a different culture,… — Toni Duggan Copy Share Image
Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results. — Hossein Malek-Afzali Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of… — Michael Dummett Copy Share Image
Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
As a cohort, millennials are unique in their social consciousness, and they make decisions based on that awareness. Keep them engaged at… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Sixties, whether it was the Batmobile or the costumes Porter Wagoner wore or the music that came from… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
'Don't Come to L.A.' is talking about how out-of-towners come to L.A., and they try to start claiming the culture, the lifestyle.… — YG Copy Share Image
Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image