Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
An affection for Hong Kong and a national identity are not mutually exclusive. We can let children learn more about Hong Kong's… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence,… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
One of the things I like most about Roufusport is, really, the culture. A lot of times, you're training in fight camps… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by lines, by shapes, when I see a dress on a person, when I see a beauty in a face,… — Russell James Copy Share Image
“The bottom line on culture and grit is: If you want to be grittier, find a gritty culture and join it. If… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
Over the years, we have witnessed massive changes and degradation to Egypt's natural heritage. It's shocking how one generation's decisions about natural… — Mindy Baha El Din Copy Share Image
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
For any country that has multiple cultures, food is an awesome way for people to acknowledge and respect each other and have… — Jock Zonfrillo Copy Share Image
Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
Film, you get to go to other locations and live the culture for a little while. You also form a strong bond… — Matt Lanter Copy Share Image
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy.… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in a voting culture. My father didn't push voting on me, my mother didn't push voting on me.… — Jelly Roll Copy Share Image
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Why don't we have a national culture? Because we have a all cultures. America has its fingertips into everything, and so does… — Everlast Copy Share Image
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
