“Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures?… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world… — Tarkan Copy Share Image
A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual.… — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“These other cultures are not failed attempts to be us; they are unique manifestations of the spirit—other options, other visions of life… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used.… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example,… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good,… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“With few ingrained food habits, Americans are among the least tradition-bound of food cultures, easily swayed by fashions and influences from other… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?' — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
“From the book Fay-nights - Rule Four: There are no different cultures, only ways yet to be learnt: There are no different… — Miggy J. Noble Copy Share Image
We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa,… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of… — Xavier Niel Copy Share Image
