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“In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'”

Ifs Years Stills Hands Culture Justice Attitude Compassion Concepts Scotland Vengeance Justice System

Author:Keith O'Brien

“If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Able Culture Acceptance Men And Women Compromise

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.”

Ifs Men Should Suffering Culture Animal Towns Killing Satisfied Killing Each Other

Author:Compay Segundo

“I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.”

Ifs Believe Two Together Culture I Believe Depends Couple Involved I Believe In Monogamy Personal History Decide Upon History And Culture

Author:K. D. Lang

“Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.”

Ifs Culture Fiction Majors Concern Violent Dystopian Escapism Dystopian Fiction Enamored Violent Death

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Able Beautiful Guy Culture Walks Like You Perceive Attractive Flaws Realising Commodity Beautiful Women Intimidated Impurity Attractive Woman

Author:Neil Strauss

“I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Humans Looks Important Real Culture Fantasy Building Best Way Real Human

Author:Laini Taylor

“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.”

Ifs Writing Book Might Romance Culture Names Forget Lucky Paper Pops Lists Ignorant Spells Topics Lit Fascination Pop Culture Chicks New Yorkers

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.”

People Ifs Knows Lasts Culture Figures Villain Captains Figure Skating Bond Movie Tycoons James Bond Movie

Author:Thomas Frank

“If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.”

Ifs Years May Long Art Country Able Culture Imagination Christianity One Thing Capture

Author:Rowan Williams

“I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Jobs Culture Clear Comedy Nice College Customers Stores Extras Just One 80s Hideous Malls Retail

Author:Jayma Mays

“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.”

Ifs Men Children Used Song Culture Imagine Music Is Singing Ultimate Old Man Swings Imagine That Rope Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.”

People Ifs World Giving Culture Climate Good Place

Author:Jan Gehl

“If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.”

Ifs America Culture My Own Too Much Style Appreciate Designer Good Design Stylish Tacky

Author:Tom Ford

“Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?”

Ifs Christian Culture Imagine Impact Riches

Author:Richard Stearns

“Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.”

Ifs Years Able Culture Quality Musician Appreciate My Favorite Pops Horrible Pop Culture Pop Music

Author:Michel Gondry

“Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.”

People Ifs Doe Jobs Culture Three Numbers Company Vision Successful Fit Strategy Hopefully Being Successful Good People Ceo Three Things

Author:Brian Chesky

“There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.”

Ifs Culture Black Blood Theory African American American Culture African American Culture

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Culture White Embrace African American Mainstream Gross American Culture Generalization Mainstream Culture African American Culture

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Art Stills Culture Forget Successful Fronts Fields Art Is Standing Contemporary Sane Engaging

Author:Tino Sehgal

“An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.”

Ifs Culture Successful Elements Invention Combination Being Successful

Book:Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens Political Mother Desire Culture Winning Situation Teach Survival Daughter Strategy Males Betray Hostile Mother Daughter Adrift

Author:Elizabeth Debold

“If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.”

Ifs Men Would Be Culture Issues Birth Men And Women Abortion Autonomy Birth Control Cooperatives

Author:Christiane Northrup

“If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.”

Ifs Way Would Be Christian Culture Difficult Christ Lays Possession Consumers Extras Consumerism Disciple Luke Overconsumption Devotee Consumer Culture

Book:A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

Source: A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

“A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.”

“I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.”

Ifs Men Kind Used Desire Culture Names Wish Voice Loses Alive Rights Sacrifice Husband Breathing Muscles Spokes Beaten Men Women Puppets Skeletons Burqa Culture And Religion

Author:Malina Suliman

“Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people react? Afghanistan doesn't want to change its culture, but it can change, all the time. So why are Afghans giving so much value to it? The burqa is not natural. It's not human nature.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Humans Values Culture Natural Human Nature Europe Permanent Afghanistan Burqa

Author:Malina Suliman

“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”

Ifs Culture Grows Ought Blame Vain Soil Agriculture Toil

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

Ifs Whole Culture Individual Nations Built Finals Arise Obligation Analysis Cycles Genuineness

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.”

Ifs America Culture Felt Childhood Our Children Endless Your Children Complaints Wailing

Author:Edmund White

“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

“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.”

Ifs Culture Leadership Teacher Prejudice Social Justice Inclusion Exclusive Art And Culture Cultures And Traditions

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.”

Ifs World May Suffering Culture Grows Moral Periods Civilization Roots Drag Degradation Deterioration

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

“Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.”

Ifs Want Wells Mean Art Ideas Seems Culture House Design Waste Theatre Museums Bus Swimming Pool Opera Drag Toilets Borrowed Dump Swimming Pool Opera House

Author:Thomas Heatherwick

“I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Country Done Government School Jobs Culture Given Sports Taken Mark Right Way Good Job Curriculum Maharashtra

Author:Gagan Narang

“For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.”

People Ifs Way Want Mean Culture Black Pops Stuck Bridges Traffic Pop Culture Tweet Brooklyn Taking Pictures Quip Brooklyn Bridge Stuck In Traffic

Author:Michael Showalter

“Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Faces Form Order Culture Evil Struggle Violence Goodness Opposites Be Good Brutal

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.”

Ifs America Culture

Book:Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

“If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.”

Ifs Real Culture Trouble Geek

Author:Bill Gates

“Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture - but sometimes if I'm collaborating with somebody, they're interested in me bringing my own stuff into their thing, and sometimes that works.”

Ifs Feels Sometimes Culture Stuff My Own Depth Collaborating

Author:David Byrne

“Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?”

People Ifs Way Looks Kind Care Culture Perfect Worry Imagine Car Computer Perfection Caring Compare Expensive Trinkets Stopped Caring Expensive Cars

Author:A.S. King

“If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.”

Ifs World Would Be Culture Chance Secret Sun Pops Pleasant Pop Culture Java Secret Knowledge

Author:Alan Kay

“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”

“If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?”

Ifs Men Form Culture Natural Environment Particular Balance Plant Why Not Association Ecology Natural Environment Habitat

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.”

People Ifs Way Want Seems Young Culture Growing Up Growing One Thing Becoming Eating Yoga Therapy Obsessed Wrong Way Eating Right

Author:Jason Reitman

“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.”

People Ifs World Way Want Mean Stills I Can Book Culture Reading Asks Answers Fiction Changed Return Reader Scandal

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.”

Ifs Thinking Action Values Culture Technology Economy Poet Vote Innovation Lawyer Journalist Engineers Participants

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?”

Ifs Looks Book Matter Culture Reading Left Meditation Effects Television Tvs Majors Program Wave Disappear Look Up Processing Hemisphere Alphas Watching Tv Watching Television Beta Theta

Author:Leonard Shlain

“If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.”

Ifs I Can Helping Culture Team Organization Impact Executives

Author:Srikumar Rao

“If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.”

Ifs Thinking Want Different Self Spirit Humanity Culture Goal Realizing Members Competition Missions Different Cultures Different Religions

Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

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