More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV,… — Nitin Sawhney Copy Share Image
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest.… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab… — Sarah Ruhl 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
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach.… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you;… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask… — Uwem Akpan 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
Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one,… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony… — Ian Cohen Copy Share Image
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas… — Banksy Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past… Each… — George Steiner 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
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure… — Gary Becker 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
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Cross-cultural reality testing forces people to examine both their own and others' understandings of reality. Most people simply assume that the way… — Paul G Copy Share Image
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
![“Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not…” quote by Chris Abani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73a/chris-abani-7393_africa_much-of-the-image-of-the-amazingness-of_2639053.jpg)
![“[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/anne-waldman-4046_can-do_jack-kerouac-looking-at-the-fellaheen-wo_2348643.png)
