I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
~By Erykah Badu ~
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
~By David Amram ~
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
~By Edward T. Hall ~
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
~By Sarah Palin ~
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
~By Kurt Loder ~
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
~By Martin Freeman ~
If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
~By Mary Antin ~
Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
~By Gary Gygax ~
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
~By Philip Warren Anderson ~
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
~By Arthur Golden ~
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
~By Gary Becker ~
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
~By Alvin Toffler ~
Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
~By Jello Biafra ~
Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
~By Brad Bird ~
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
~By David Brooks ~
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
~By Beck ~
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
~By Albert Camus ~
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
~By Christopher Bond ~
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
~By Hu Shih ~
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
~By Tony Hsieh ~
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
~By Max Cannon ~
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
~By Jose Marti ~
So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.
~By Steven Chu ~
More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture. A strong agriculture means a strong economy.
~By John Fisher ~
There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
~By David Amram ~
I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
~By Laurel Clark ~
I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.
~By Neil Tennant ~
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
~By Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ~
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
~By Martin C. Smith ~
Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
~By Robert McChesney ~
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
~By Carl Bernstein ~
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
~By Xun Zi ~
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
~By Gunther Schuller ~
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
~By W. H. Auden ~
There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.
~By Roma Downey ~
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
~By Bernardo Bertolucci ~
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 not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.
~By Deborah Bull ~
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
~By Peter Singer ~
There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.
~By Judd Gregg ~
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
~By Ira Glass ~
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
~By Roland Barthes ~
Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
~By Jet Li ~
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
~By Herb Ritts ~
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
~By Judith Wright ~
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
~By Etta James ~
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
~By Mao Zedong ~
English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
~By Bai Ling ~
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
~By John Shirley ~
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
~By Yao Ming ~
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
~By Simone Veil ~
Culture makes all men gentle.
~By Menander ~
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.
~By Richard Russo ~
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
~By Amos Oz ~
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
~By Tavis Smiley ~
Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
~By Jock Sturges ~
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
~By Thomas Frank ~
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
~By James T. Walsh ~
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.
~By Paul Farmer ~
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
~By Arthur Keith ~
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
~By Matthew Fox ~
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
~By Morley Safer ~
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
~By Stephen Harper ~
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
~By Joichi Ito ~
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