“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.” WritingRealStoriesSchoolCultureTeamFootballBearsInvolvedHigh SchoolMagazinesFootball TeamPariahs Author:Tom Perrotta
“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.” IfsBelieveTwoTogetherCultureI BelieveDependsCoupleInvolvedI Believe InMonogamyPersonal HistoryDecide UponHistory And Culture Author:K. D. Lang
“Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsLooksLongI CanSometimesStatesCultureNamesCommunityAttentionToo MuchPerspectiveInvolvedLong TimeLowsWaveCaughtIncomeHopefullyChicagoSenatorsObscurityPublic ServiceFlatteringBuzzOrganizerLow IncomeCelebrity Culture Author:Barack Obama
“Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.” CultureRevolutionBuddhismInvolvedEndureOppositionLoyalCritique Author:Alan Watts
“Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.” MenWayStillsCultureFeetInvolvedProtectEarsBest WayNosesRitualScarBindingPiercingsCorsetsUgandaPhysical StrengthProtect Women Author:Warren Farrell
“Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.” PeopleIfsShouldWholeTodayFilmCultureReadingIndividualMillionsToo MuchExampleInvolvedHollywoodCriticsPopulationLikesCentsCompetingGrossCautionPopular CultureStanleyFragmented Author:Mark Steyn
“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.” YearsStoriesHomeAmericaCultureSidesMomInvolvedConflictMy FamilyRaisedMy MomPopsOur FamilyHouseholdGrandparentBack HomeEthiopiaFormative YearsEritrea Author:Nipsey Hussle
“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.” ArtistCultureInvolvedBattleHip HopHipsHops Author:Curtis Jackson
“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.” CultureWifeSonInvolvedDressesHip HopMy WifeWho I AmHipsHopsMy Son Author:Chris Paul
“I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.” IfsYearsDoneCultureForgetSubjectsParticularInvolvedTenTasksExceptionAdmirationZeroReservesForget ItGet Involved Author:Gilles Deleuze