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“My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family, my aunties, grandparents, is in Africa.”

Years Stories Home America Culture Sides Mom Involved Conflict My Family Raised My Mom Pops Our Family Household Grandparent Back Home Ethiopia Formative Years Eritrea

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.”

Ifs Art Form Culture Bigger Finance

Author:Curtis Jackson

“The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.”

Artist Culture Involved Battle Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.”

Ifs Important Country Life Is Culture

Author:George W. Bush

“I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.”

People Thinking Writing Night Culture Walks Laughing Pops Pop Culture Microphones Make Me Laugh

Author:Demetri Martin

“I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.”

Law Culture Reading Literature Moral Guides Anthropology

Author:David Plotz

“In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!”

Kind Seems Culture Games Internet Towns 80s Exposure Parody Mtv Rotation Internet Culture

Author:Al Yankovic

“Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.”

Ifs Knows Men Shows Guy Culture Know How Raised Criminals Sarcastic Southern His Love Southern Culture

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“Let's admit that feminism came from liberalism and it was very positive. But then it went dark. It went into a bad place. When feminism replaced biology with social construct, they started to say that everything about a human being was created by your environment or by your - by environmental cues as opposed to innate traits... Like you didn't achieve what you could get because it was your fault. They denied traits that are applied across all cultures. And that's where feminism went wrong is it denied biology and makes them look foolish.”

Looks Culture Social Dark Feminism Achieve Like You Faults Foolish Liberalism Biology Denied Traits Replaced Constructs Very Positive

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.”

People Made Culture Winning Team Talent Weakness Productive Irrelevant Complementary

Author:Stephen Covey

“I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.”

Culture Speak Poverty Trouble Limits Messages Concepts Melody Unbelievable Reggae Reggae Music

Author:Sean Kingston

“Everyone with an iPhone is a journalist in their own way now, especially because we live in a tabloid culture.”

Way Culture Journalist Iphone Tabloids

Author:Megan Fox

“Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.”

Culture Surface

Author:Felix Buxton

“I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.”

Writing Culture Environment Seeing New Things Provoking New Thought New Cultures Thoughts In Your Head

Author:Josh Radnor

“That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.”

Jobs Culture Church Economy Balance Catholic Catholic Church Materialistic

Author:David Brooks

“I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.”

Culture Media Like Me Jackals

Author:David Brooks

“The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.”

Art Culture Modern Entertainment Evolve Modern Culture Popular Entertainment

Author:Andrew Hoberek

“I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.”

Thinking Way Turns Culture Animal Moral Special Accounts Species Agents

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."”

Firsts Heart Culture Games Company Broken Meant To Be Sweat Virgins Were Meant To Be Company Culture

Author:Richard Branson

“Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.”

World Way Wells Art Form Culture Grows Growing Up Style Grew Grew Up Dresses Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:LeCrae

“The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.”

“If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens America Culture Black New York Rap Paris Could Have Been Rap Music Black America

Author:Ice Cube

“I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.”

Thinking Way Reason Culture Black Acceptance Music Is Pops Rap Sole Pop Culture Rap Music Very Popular

Author:Ice Cube

“Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.”

Hands Together Culture Winning Athlete Hip Hop Brands Hips Hops Hand In Hand Pro Athlete

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.”

Culture Wife Son Involved Dresses Hip Hop My Wife Who I Am Hips Hops My Son

Author:Chris Paul

“I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.”

Trying Humans I Can Culture Deals Honest Ambition Laughter Empty Optimism Blind Disappointment Contemporary Uplifting Depressing Existential Mockery Portrayal Blind Optimism

Author:Chris Ware

“My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been excited about eating and cooking for as long as I can remember.”

Long Has Beens I Can Remember Culture Seeing Dad Eating Cooking Moved My Dad Excited Navy Cuisine

Author:Graham Elliot

“I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.”

Thinking Feels Trying Art Culture Views Focus Alive Happened Right Now Nostalgia Lenses Sentimentality Undermining Invigorating Art And Culture Disheartening Happy To Be Alive

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.”

“There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that's the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both.”

Want Humans Children Facts Culture Parent Lines Groups Bottom Daddy Bottom Line Orphanage

Author:Melissa Fay Greene

“The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.”

World Way Culture Shells Dna Galaxy Ratios Spirals Snail Milky Way

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?”

Thinking Way Book Kids Used Culture Goal Television Towns Pops Access Pop Culture Bookstores

Author:Matt Groening

“The one thing I will say is management is management. Culture is culture. You have to have a formula for those things. You have to believe in what you do and how you do it, but then you go to different environments and you have to be willing to adapt. You have to be willing to tweak things based on where you are.”

Believe Different Culture Environment One Thing Willing Management Where You Are Formulas Tweak Different Environments

Author:Pete Lembo

“It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true.”

People Reason Feelings Hate Culture Media Television Comfortable Election Warm Candidates Friendly Mechanic

Author:Michael Schur

“I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.”

Thinking Self Kids Young Culture Influence Discovery Pops Self Discovery Pop Culture Define Yourself Positive Influence

Author:Terry Gross

“There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.”

Men Culture Contemporary Masculine Faux

Author:David Gordon Green

“I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.”

People Thinking Men Way Kind Whole Used Culture Growing Civilization Pops Honestly Consumers Impress Pop Culture Mustache

Author:Nick Offerman

“I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.”

Culture Deserve Praise

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to the point where you can really be connected with the fields of energy around you. I think that men and women in our Western culture are completely disconnected from that energy, and in my new work I want to make this connection possible.”

Thinking Men Want Mean Body Culture Energy Deals Fields Men And Women Empty Connections Western Connected Boat Streams Entering Disconnected Western Culture New Work

Author:Marina Abramovic

“We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.”

Spirit Culture Wish Christianity Theory

Book:The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. Its like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but its almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.”

Ifs Play Whole Home Running Kids Culture Walks Streets Running Away Begging Living On Cool Things Away From Home Oregon Squat Portland Portland Oregon

Author:Laura Ramsey

“[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.”

People Culture Taste Accounts Corporate Restaurants Fast Food Takeovers Fast Food Restaurants

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.”

Ends Culture Levels Struggle Feminism Western Various Oppression Ideology Domination Sexist Western Culture

Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.”

Mind Looks Culture Crosses Revelations Fascinating Poignant

Author:T.C. Boyle

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.”

“An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.”

World Has Beens Culture Feminism Periods Indigenous Suppression

Book:Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology

Source: Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.”

Men Doe Christian Certain Culture Evil Term Moral Type Return Recovery Cures Savages Evil Man Degeneration

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.”

World Feelings Culture Challenges Attention Sacrifice Mass Simplicity Isolation Vague Mass Culture

Book:Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

“Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.”

Wells Culture Process Evidence Method Conservative Uncertainty Prize Bad Things Reviews Peers Limbs Cautious Gore Scientific Method Peer Review

Author:Al Gore

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