America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain… — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here.… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments,… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a dance, and the ancient Wyr were late to the ball. They donned masks and slipped with silent predatory grace… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off.… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One,… — Joe Biden 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
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful.… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
My wife is Indonesian-Japanese... and what happened is, she found me doing a documentary on pencak silat. And through the process of… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
“I am from Lebanon, from Beirut and Saida I am from the ground underneath my home I am from the trees, the… — Talal Kassem Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I truly believe Accenture is a magnet for top talent in the new, not only because of the work we do for… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
I think there's something thrilling about going into a movie house and seeing everything on such a huge screen. I think we're… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
Family is something that I grew up with, and the Mexican culture has a lot of, you know - Sunday is the… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
I honestly now know that I'm the physical embodiment of hip-hop on earth. That's my only purpose here on earth is to… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Food, for me, is society, and food is very political. Food is part of culture, and culture relies on art and creativity.… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
“Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
“The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It‚Äôs not… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
In the rainforest you look around and there's nothing that suggests getting older is a problem, but we're in a culture that… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
