“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?” ThinkingSometimesHardUsedCultureAirSubjectsExtremesBreatheCommentMainstreamPopular Culture Author:Lauren Greenfield
“In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.” DiesCultureSpaceActingAirHavensFieldsJudgingListeningTasksEternityAbsolutesInfiniteForgivingDuesBreathePlanningFiniteContingencyOpen Spaces Author:Eugen Drewermann
“They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.” IfsThinkingNeedsLightCultureLeftSpaceAirPlanetsFlyingAliensLiftsMonumentVacuumsRunwayFlying Saucers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.” WayArtCultureClearAirSkyLandWindDrinkLowsHeavyHomeland Book:How Writing Is Written Source: How Writing Is Written
“I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.” IfsMenKindImportantIdeasWholeCultureFatherStuffAirEffectsSellsSellingUnclesSalesmanBoyhood Author:Arthur Miller
“Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.” ReasonStoriesBigsCertainCultureAirEthicsJournalismBig QuestionsJournalistic Author:Thomas Sadoski
“There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture.” ArtCulturePassionAirDramaSittingUncomfortableSeatsDamp Author:Sheridan Morley
“Most producers today are little bedroom producers and then they get their record and get signed by an agency and go on the road, but they have no idea about DJ-ing. They have no culture about where that music comes from and they just stand behind the booth, put their hand in the air, and play all the hits.” LittlesIdeasPlayHandsTodayCultureBehindsRecordsAirGoes OnProducersNo IdeaAgencyBedroomDjsHands In The Air Author:Cedric Gervais
“Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.” IfsThinkingTryingSometimesCultureWhiteSupportAirPrivilegeBreatheConvinceRacistWhite Privilege Author:Nate Parker
“My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.” ThinkingDifferentFeelingsJoyCultureInterestSeeingAirInstanceConnectednessDifferent Cultures Author:Wole Soyinka