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“Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.”

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Author:Jennifer Harrison

“The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.”

Knows States Culture Female Accounts England Males Population Exceed New England

Book:Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

“We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.”

Knows Men Way Said Culture Next Differences Generations Creation Men And Women Next Generation Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Margaret Mead

“Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.”

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

“England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.”

Knows Culture Grows Common Land England Size Arise Folly Tow

Book:Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts

Source: Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts

“Sometimes I feel like people don't even know how to react in some situations because of online culture. Since many things are online, you might not react to something that is happening live.”

People Knows Feels Sometimes Might Culture Situation Know How Happenings Online

Author:Rob Zombie

“We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.”

Knows May Art Country Culture Moral Hero Chaos Corruption Innocence Winner Our Time Damage Thrive Survivor Loser Popular Culture Paralyzed

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.”

Knows Culture Powerless

Book:Women, money & power

Source: Women, money & power

“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.”

“I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.”

Knows World Needs Giving Trying I Can Country Stories Culture Understanding Ten Fairs Accounts Spread Journalist Activist Balanced Educator Other Cultures

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with the way we're evolving since our culture is changing so fast.”

Knows Way Ends Hard Culture Literature Evolve Translate Timeless

Author:Rick Riordan

“The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].”

“If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.”

Ifs Knows Littles Problem Seems Culture Teaching Majority Burden Discrimination

Author:Mitsuye Yamada

“I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.”

Knows I Can Culture Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Gamer

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“It's a big culture of mind control too, MK-Ultra mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don't know that, google it and look into it. It's really hard for artists to find their voice in the media. It's levels of brainwashing and mind control.”

Ifs Knows Mind Looks Hard Bigs Artist Culture Voice Levels Media Hollywood Google Mind Control Brainwashing Ultras

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.”

“Always aim for 100 percent and you'll always know where to improve.”

Knows Culture Percent Aim Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.”

Ifs Knows Care Culture Treats Train Customers Treated Winner Employee Service Culture

Author:J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

“I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.”

Thinking Knows Giving Culture Race Audience Car Materials Relation Bars Candy Race Relations Depiction Placement Candy Bar

Author:Manny Farber

“Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.”

Knows Men World Way Mean Culture Married Committed Behave One Man Be You Homosexual World History Being Married One Woman

Author:James Dobson

“We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.”

People Thinking Knows World Want Should Kind Art Important Moving Culture Strong Stuff Voice Support Huge Art Is Theatre All Kinds Always Believe

Author:Steve Buscemi

“We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.”

Thinking Knows World Way Country Young Culture Evil Redneck

Author:Steve Earle

“Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.”

People Ifs Knows Has Beens Culture Process Drug Affected Never Ending Drug Culture

Author:Macklemore

“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.”

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Author:David Rockefeller

“Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.”

People Knows Needs Should Trying Believe Important Country Culture I Believe Immigrants

Author:David Ortiz

“As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.”

Knows Used Culture Pops Comic Pop Culture

Author:Brian Posehn

“I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.”

Thinking Knows Kind Culture Parent Institutions

Author:Margaret Spellings

“Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Culture Despair Giving Up Organization Western Feminist Western Culture

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.”

Thinking Knows May Lying Certain Culture Cities New York Mass Characteristics New York City Tourism Possessing Flattering Charisma Mass Culture

Author:Jonathan Dee

“If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?”

Ifs Knows Culture Universe Theory Stranger Alternatives Cycles Fulfilling

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.”

Knows I Can Remember Film Song Culture Religious Sleep Our Lives Products Function Wake Up Traditional Celebrate Indian Cinema Lullaby Song And Dance

Author:Karan Johar

“Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is still my responsibility to fight for her rights. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.”

Source: Bad Feminist: Essays

“A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there.”

People Knows Different Culture Poverty Know How Rich Areas Shock Culture Shock

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.”

Ifs Knows Lying Culture Emotional Pops Credit Smell Teenager Being Yourself Pop Culture Sophistication Millennials Don't Lie

Author:John Green

“I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.”

Knows Culture Social Media Accounts Social Media Pops Pop Culture Savvy

Author:Misha Collins

“I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“Women are objectified in our culture. And more and more, it takes a great deal of confidence, especially as a woman, to break the mold. You know, you're afraid that you're going to covered in a magazine as a "fashion don't." That's why you see all these girls on the red carpet looking the same.”

Knows Culture Girl Deals Break Fashion Red Magazines Covered Carpet Mold Red Carpet

Author:Tom Ford

“In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.”

“Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.”

Knows World Mean Has Beens Said Matter Culture Concern Perfection Pursuit

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and wireless within reach. For the evening there is the film, cards, or a meeting to complete a day spent in the office or factory where nothing that is essential has been learnt. With slight variation this picture of a low cultural average holds good over the entire range from factory-hand of clerk to manager or director. Only the personal will to culture, in whatever field and however pursued raises modern man above this level.”

“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”

Thinking Knows Men World Giving May Lasts Culture Black Race Virtue Conditions Circumstances Civilization Capable Surprise Oppressed Last Words

Author:Marcus Garvey

“I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.”

People Knows Years Littles Has Beens Culture Courses Bits Issues Mines Little Bit Concern Deaf Deafness

Author:John Scalzi

“It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.”

“What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."”

Thinking Knows Should Hard Culture Sound Months Okay Regard Hip Hop Rap Great Things Hips Hops Rapper Rhyme Flavor Flavor Of The Month

Author:Ice T

“If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.”

Ifs Knows Want Important Culture Language What's Important

Author:Joanne Harris

“A proactive person needs no pressure to perform and an ineffective person offloads his pressure onto others to deform the positive work culture of the system. So practically, a progressive organization knows that no pressure environment plays a pivotal role to increase the productivity or proficiency of its workforce.”

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Author:Anuj

“Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.”

Knows Mind Ideas Culture Views Know How Offers Intellect Allowing New Ideas Hospitality

Author:Tom Kettle

“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.”

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers.”

Knows Humans Doe Earth Form Spirit Culture Tree Figures Divine Flower Bears Sacred Fruit Mediums Symbols Agents Cosmos Transformed Prophecy Dwelling Metamorphosis Dwelling Place

Author:Christopher McDowell

“Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'”

Knows Lying Culture Waiting Rich Intelligent Presses Scary Galaxy Curtains Erotic

Author:Terence McKenna