as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My favorite country that I have visited would have to be Sweden. I'm such a sucker for the Swedish culture, and I… — Hilary Knight Copy Share Image
For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole… — Alex North Copy Share Image
People think, sports delivers a message. It's not just about winning and losing, although that's important. It's about other things, too. It… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
I agree with Peter Drucker that the culture and legal systems of the United Statesare especially favorable to shareholder interests, compared to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
We currently live in a culture where outrage is a bit of a hobby for some people. If they're not outraged about… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
Despite the never-ending debate on the question of the role of government in America, there's been a strong tradition of protecting our… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
If you take the time to visit rural regions, where horsemen ride by and yurts are set up in summer meadows, you… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys.… — Godfrey Gao Copy Share Image
I have been instilled with culture from such a young age that I know who I am, and I know once sporting… — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, "Does television lead, or does it follow?" You know, does it… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to… — Robin Flower Copy Share Image
My mother was very proud of her Indian heritage and taught us, me and my sister Maya, to share in the pride… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Ed Harris seemed to be as a man, it seems, like a Clint Eastwood, this country is one that has produced more… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because… — Marianne von Werefkin Copy Share Image
The people of Floridas 2nd Congressional District said, Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington. Ive taken… — Steve Southerland Copy Share Image
