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“Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.”

World Values Culture Cities Building Raises Trade Tall Twins Towers Monument World Trade World Trade Center Twin Towers Tall Buildings

Book:The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century

Source: The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century

“In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.”

Writing Culture My Own Views Conscious Indian Subjectivity Indian Culture

Author:Shashi Tharoor

“Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.”

Long Body Christian Culture Nations Morality Ethics Doctors Constitution Notion Medical Euthanasia Christian Morality

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.”

People Country Together Culture Landscape Other Countries Cuisine

Author:Frances Mayes

“As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.”

Thinking Giving Children Important Stories Certain Culture Father Grew Dad Grew Up South Expected Hug Baths Diapers

Author:Clyde Edgerton

“Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.”

“I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.”

Thinking Culture 80s Geek Gears Nostalgic

Author:Ernest Cline

“I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'”

Feels Shows Action Culture Stars Space Morning Growing Up Growing Giants Saturday Cartoon 80s Geek Blazers Saturday Morning

Author:Ernest Cline

“Culture Clash is a national treasure.”

Culture Treasure Clash National Treasure

Author:Philip Kan Gotanda

“Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.”

People Country Culture Games Violence Crazy Duty Protect Eating Pops Video Hey Pop Culture Sandwiches Couches Call Of Duty

Author:Natasha Leggero

“Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.”

“John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.”

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.”

Play Whole Night Culture Left Hours Cold Machines Noise All Night Vegas Las Vegas Slot Machines

Author:James Nesbitt

“Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.”

Culture Courses Language Powerful Cruelty Destroyed Vitality Very Powerful Other Cultures

Author:Louise Erdrich

“The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that its the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.”

Firsts Art Important Facts Form Culture Conditions Particular First Time Performances Important Things Jazz Dedicated American Culture Exhibits Lincoln Center

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.”

Writing Country Bigs Culture Cities New York Pride Gay Compliment Grit Gay Pride Being Played

Author:Jennifer Nettles

“Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.”

Kind Character Film Night Culture Watches Imagine Impossible Strange Reflection Depressing Somewhere Else Inexplicable Storyline American Film

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“I am not a Hispanic candidate. I am an American candidate who happens to be of Hispanic heritage, who understands the culture, who has worked the border and has a unique understanding of those issues. But rest assured my job is to represent all Americans as a U.S. senator.”

Happens Jobs Culture Understanding Issues Unique Borders Candidates Heritage Senators Assured Hispanic

Author:Richard Carmona

“Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.”

“All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.”

Hard Values Culture Community Hard Work Roots South Perseverance Nfl Pacific Embedded Counterparts Samoa Polynesians

Author:Troy Polamalu

“I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.”

Has Beens Play America Culture Roles Player Fans Football Blessed Athlete League Territory Heritage Professional Athlete

Author:Troy Polamalu

“I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.”

“In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.”

Has Beens Ends Government Culture Integrity Responsible Sacred Determined Absence Irony Native Native American American Culture Native American Culture

Book:Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

Source: Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

“New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.”

World Important Culture Cities Fashion New York Finance New York City Location

Author:Jared Kushner

“I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.”

Thinking Hard Culture Music Is Notion Linked Preconceived Notions

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.”

Thinking Men Trying Bigs Running Culture Parent Youth Statements Youth Culture

Author:Chris Lilley

“I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.”

Want Past Culture Watches Tradition Eternity Connected Apples Apple Watch

Author:Jean-Claude Biver

“May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.”

May Country Hard Beautiful Culture Strong Mankind Hard Work Development Benefits Roots Strongest Chemicals Promotion Sweden

Author:Otto Wallach

“India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.”

Long I Can Different Feelings Remember Culture India Indian Fascinated Yogi Indian Culture Different Feelings

Author:Joe Perry

“I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.”

World Used Culture Literature Study Events Historical Favourite Imaginary Location English Literature Old English Historical Events Deeply In Love

Author:Samantha Shannon

“Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'”

Men Looks Moments Culture Father Boys Hopefully Fathers Day Happy Fathers Day Greetings

Author:Michael Gurian

“The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Children Body Used Certain Culture Individual Social Community Hurt Economic Raises Mere Mold

Author:Michael Gurian

“I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.”

Different Culture Situation Principles Particular Eternal Universal Manners Distinction Arbitrary Etiquette Different Times Different Cultures

Author:Judith Martin

“The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.”

People Stills Culture Modern Discovering Spain

Author:Jose Andres

“The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.”

Art Artist Turns Culture Dignity Tides Extensions Crusades Disintegration

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.”

Mean Age Culture Grows Memories Creating Cameras Digital Online Mail Participation Unlimited Trails Blogs Tweet Archives Digital Cameras

Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.”

Culture Rich New York Commerce Cuisine

Author:Patricia Marx

“Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.”

Trying Heart Culture Lines Half Middle Missing Events My Heart Majors Originals Pops Mainstream Pop Culture Upbringing

Author:Michael De Luca

“I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.”

Thinking Ideas School Culture Growing Up Growing Machines Engineering Perpetual Intrigued

Author:Mike Duke

“The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.”

Important Shows Culture Social Differences Class Groups Influence Minors Hobbies Affirmation Reproduction Social Class Culture And Education

Author:Pierre Bourdieu

“Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.”

Ifs Doe Home Happens Lying Night Culture Walks Teach Awake Cheat Vegas Cheater

Author:Tom Shadyac

“In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.”

Culture Winning Sports Media Honor Cost Corporate Corporate Culture Win At All Costs

Author:Jackson Katz

“If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.”

Ifs Enough Culture Black Smart Rap Masculinity Caricatures Gangsta Black Culture Kkk Gangsta Rap

Author:Jackson Katz

“The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.”

Thinking Used Culture Teach Knowing Computer Program Mediums Presentation Great Power Simulation Powerpoint

Author:Sherry Turkle

“We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.”

Needs Country Hands Artist Culture Speak Millions Honor Members Vote Impact Our Country Always Believe Influential Hand In Hand Speaks Out Need A Change Popular Culture Populist Indebted

Author:Eli Pariser

“Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.”

Way Certain Culture Imagine Mythology Subjective

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.”

Way Mean Faces Culture Challenges Opinion Extremes Simplify Marginalized

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.”

Ifs Enough Culture Sides Innocence Get Away Charming Flip Theatrical

Author:Susan Choi

“Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.”

Ifs Would Be Wanted Culture Difficult Brands Reverse Inertia

Author:Andrew Mason

“A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.”

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