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“The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.”

People Knows Firsts Humans Made Stills Fall Culture Known Longing Going Away Deep Inside Deepest Fear Our Deepest Fear

Author:John Ortberg

“Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.”

Firsts Wells Kind Two Important Culture Institutions Important Things Islam Differentiate

Author:Abdurrahman Wahid

“My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.”

Firsts Book Reason Kids Hate Culture Felt Audience Growing Up Growing Shadow Hollywood British Materialism Affected Cult Love Hate

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“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

“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

“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.”

“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”

“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.”

People World Firsts Country Hands Values Culture Information Tvs Internet Phones Other Countries Mobile Validity Other Cultures Mobile Phones Second Hand First Hand Experience

Author:Nitin Sawhney

“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.”

Way Firsts Long Made Book Country Humanity Culture Building Lessons Built Communicate Tales Learning Lessons

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.”

World Firsts Form Culture Picks Confusion Defined Perceive Blooming Outer Worlds

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.”

Firsts May Art Certain Culture Simple Style Complexity Mature Glances Symmetry

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.”

Firsts Culture Difficult Effects Wall Surround Modernism Erudition

Book:Modern Culture

Source: Modern Culture

“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.”

“In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.”

Firsts Lasts Culture Effort

Book:Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

Source: Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

“The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.”

“The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.”

Source: Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man

“There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.”

Firsts Values Culture Parent Teacher Tradition Profound Recognition Rooted Formal Norm Schooling

Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“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

“I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.”

Firsts Culture Growing Up Growing Generations Including Indian Iranian

Author:Michael Steger

“I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.”

People Way Firsts Culture Spirituality Understanding White Tendencies Indian Mysticism Adopted Asian Suspicious Exotic American Indian

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.”

Firsts Culture Television Wrestling American Culture Pro Wrestling

Author:CM Punk

“Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.”

People Firsts Littles Said Important Self Suffering Culture Taken Trouble Modern Ego Rewards True Self Medal Inner Life Identification Away From You Modern Culture

Author:Richard Rohr

“I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.”

Ifs Feels Should Firsts Culture Music Too Much Heard Expression Fine Depends Hero Singing Sorry Musical Showers Curtains Shower Curtains Musical Expression

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.”

“When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.”

“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.”

Firsts Littles Moments Able Culture Individual Belief Born Community Birth Habit Activity Shapes Creatures Behavior Standards Patterns Customs Impossibility Accommodations

Author:Ruth Benedict

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.”

“The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.”

People Firsts Body Culture First Time Passages Documentaries Ceremony Attempting Intrigued Rite Other Cultures Suspension Rite Of Passage

Book:Mindfreak: Secret Revelations

Source: Mindfreak: Secret Revelations

“The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.”

Needs Firsts Culture Steps Customers First Steps Need You Being There Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“First be effective and then be efficient.”

Firsts Culture Efficient Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.”

Ifs Men Trying Firsts Children Would Be Culture Sex Dangerous He Man Protect Concepts Instinct Woods Every Man Combat Women In Combat

Author:Grace Hopper

“Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“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

“To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first. Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind. In other words a player should do his utmost and nothing less.”

Should Mind Firsts Mean Culture Player Masters Careful Technique Modest

Author:Kyuzo Mifune

“Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.”

Firsts Spiritual Certain Values Culture Materials Balance Spiritual Values

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Culture Actors Poor Cases Theater Blame Culture Change

Author:Christopher Reeve

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.”

People Firsts Book Culture Memories Steps First Steps Erase

Author:Milan Kundera

“Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.”

Firsts Lasts Humanity Culture Modern Lows Scales Midst Tribes Continuity Unbroken Transmission Modern Culture Animism

Book:Primitive Culture

Source: Primitive Culture

“The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.”

Firsts Art Country Culture Progress

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.”

World Firsts Two Country Form Culture Conflict Thirds Borders Mexico Mexican Third World Two Worlds Merging Grate Scabs Mexican Border

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.”

Firsts Children Art Culture Language Taught Grew Grew Up Embrace Folks Backgrounds My Children Heritage Denied Candy Mexican Folk Art

Author:Salma Hayek