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“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.”

Wells Littles Whole Problem Form Culture Stuff Bits Can Do Television Listening Little Bit Various Australia Accents No Problem American Culture Tricky Whole Family

Author:Guy Pearce

“Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.”

Believe Seems Culture Teach Frightened Entertaining

Author:Kiki Smith

“Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.”

Culture Fields Habit Activity Speech Habitual

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Long Art Enough Form Used Culture Fields First Time Appreciation Make Sense Modernism

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

“The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.”

World Whole Artist Culture Brain Loneliness Creating Storm Myth Whole World Persistent Castles Primal Battered

Book:Confessions of a conservative

Source: Confessions of a conservative

“Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.”

“The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.”

Thinking Culture Speech Manifestation Commencement Commencement Speech

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.”

Knows World Way Want I Can Different Certain Values Culture Identity Depth One Way Our World Different Cultures

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.”

Has Beens Important Different Certain Culture Process Inspire Normal Relation Myth Artistic Reverse

Author:Asger Jorn

“The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.”

Years Culture Creative Happened Television Shots Years Ago Hollywood Financial Presenter

Author:Terry Wogan

“The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.”

Culture Profit Valleys Silicon Silicon Valley Non Profit

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“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.”

Dream America Certain Culture Interest Democracy Personality Aspiration Clash Mobility

Author:David Brooks

“I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.”

Writing Mean Made Sometimes Moving Culture Literature My Own College Appreciate India Importance Moved Indian American Indian Moving Away Appreciate You

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.”

Culture Students International Faculty Expertise Baylor

Author:David Garrett

“Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.”

Culture Taken Method Wide Agency Take Time Improving Nasa Culture Change

Author:Tom Krause

“As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.”

World Dream Together Culture Audience Talent Movement Hip Hop Hips Minorities Hops Latin Our Dreams Showcase Together We Can Latin Music

Author:Emilio Estefan

“I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Culture Fields Football Connections Committed Hockey Responding

Author:Jon Jones

“The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.”

Art Shows Reality Artist Culture Mirrors Constant Historical Objectives Purifying True Reality Overseeing

Book:The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

“A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.”

Culture Belief Evolution Tradition Introduction Cuisine

Author:Vikas Khanna

“The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping popular culture, business, and society today, .. As the web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the web in exciting new directions.”

“I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.”

Needs Should Culture Courses Healthy Deny Convinced Artistic Norm Continuity Healthy Society

Author:Earle Brown

“Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?”

Culture Black Issues Black Culture

Author:Azealia Banks

“The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.”

May Made War Ends Artist Culture Growth Freedom Expression Industry Argument Being The Best Paradox Censorship Freedom Of Expression

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.”

Art Culture Consensus Criteria Convenience

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.”

Culture Fool Paint Painter Curator

Author:Robert Genn

“The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.”

Knows Firsts May Culture Principles Modern Wind Boundaries Connectedness No Boundaries Whirlwind Modern Culture

Author:Mu Xin

“The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.”

Artist Culture Guardian

Author:Robert Longo

“When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.”

Wells Soul Culture Lost Self Knowledge Lost Souls

Author:Maureen Murdock

“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.”

Mind Spirit Culture Study Conditions Becoming Circumstances Perfection Inward Becoming Something

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one”

Culture Moral Intellectual Phenomenon

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.”

Knows World Has Beens Said Culture

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Men of culture are the true apostles of equality”

Men Culture Apostles

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.”

“Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.”

Culture Natural Justice Class Middle Effects Circumstances Diversity Social Justice Inequality Middle Class Upper Class Lower Class

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”

Culture Nations Social Church Justice Building Diversity Social Justice Uplifting Engaged Nation Building Church Buildings

Author:Marcus Garvey

“The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?”

Men World Whole Running Culture Nations Justice Race Divine Diversity Advantage Fellows Social Justice Whole World Bluffs Divine Right

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.”

Character Culture Growing Personality Becoming Perfection

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.”

Thinking Way Inspirational Mean Ideas Problem Bigs Culture Technology Products Taste Originals Microsoft Best Job Original Ideas Best Design Small Jobs

Author:Steve Jobs

“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.”

People Science Culture Goal Details All Time Physicist Completeness Coherence

Author:Max Planck

“Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.”

Said Wisdom Culture Asks They Said

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.”

Light Culture Passion Sweetness

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.”

Culture Study Perfection Swagger Swag

Author:Matthew Arnold

“I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.”

Wanted Culture Black Revelations Black Culture

Author:Alvin Ailey

“You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.”

People Knows Want Culture Design Development Innovation

Author:Walt Disney

“We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.”

Thinking Real Whole Dream Spiritual Culture Speak Language Mankind Development Civilization Roots Mirrors Spiritual Development Tracing

Author:Ernest Klein

“The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.”

People Spirit Culture Nations Understanding Support Study Deserve Seeking Contact Presidential Other Cultures Study Abroad

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.”

People Thinking Want Life Culture Figures Discipline Paid Pops Convincing Want Something Pop Culture

Author:Steve Jobs

“It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.”

Writing Art Seems Culture Virtue Environment Slips

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

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