Culture Quote by Emily Barton Download Open image “As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.” — Emily Barton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Dominant Dominant culture Judaism Religion Thinker Thinking
I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way. — Adam Lamberg Copy Share Image
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality. — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish. — Larry David Copy Share Image
I have never had a problem with the Jewish community, and besides why would I have? — Nicolas Anelka Copy Share Image
I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck 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 gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image