[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans.… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free… — Una Stannard Copy Share Image
All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment.… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I always encourage them to practice in a way that will help them go back to their own tradition and get re-rooted.… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Southern culture is vivified, made a culture, by the melding of influences that are held far more closely than in other, lesser… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always… — Flume Copy Share Image
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early… — Greta Van Susteren Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I… — Vinnie Tesla Copy Share Image
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about culture, and people artificially want… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be a member of the creative class, particularly here in Atlanta where the entertainment and creative industries form such… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls -… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
![“[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.” quote by Sheena Iyengar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/sheena-iyengar-2596_assumption_americans-think-that-choice-as-seen-thro_2472086.png)
![“All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/644/jean-paul-sartre-220_book_all-the-same-they-books-do-serve-some-pu_2133584.png)
