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“I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.”

Thinking Whole Culture Terrible Marketing Genre Division

Author:Tom Waits

“I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.”

People Thinking Wells Important Happens Culture Force Dangerous Communicate Morale Bad Politics

Author:Aaron Levie

“I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.”

Thinking Children Whole Culture Wonderful New York Diversity Raises Available Whole Family Wonderful Places

Author:Ana Ortiz

“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

“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.”

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Author:John Polkinghorne

“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.”

People Thinking Long Political Culture Courses Impossible Perspective Long Time Fascinated Secular Ignored

Author:Tom Perrotta

“In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.”

People Thinking Culture Grief Sadness Edges

Author:Anthony Rapp

“I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.”

Thinking Culture Hero Guitar Pops Pop Culture Guitar Hero

Author:Brett Ratner

“I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.”

Thinking Song Culture Quality Heard Emotional Brother Exciting Hip Hop Hips Evolve Vulnerability Hops Quests Tribes Jungle Tribe Called Quest

Author:Michael Rapaport

“Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.”

Thinking Reality Culture Tvs Inspired Youngsters Reality Tv

Author:Alan Sugar

“I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.”

Thinking Littles Matter Culture Reading Environment Listening

Author:David Sylvian

“The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.”

People Thinking Kind Culture Stuff Levels Therapy Shock Coarse Shock Therapy

Author:Matt Stone

“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.”

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Author:Neil Strauss

“Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.”

Thinking World Way I Can Today Culture Nations Community Issues Changed Relevant American Culture Our Community African Culture Jamestown

Author:Tavis Smiley

“One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.”

Thinking Wells Important Culture Pops Superhero Pop Culture Resonance Cinematic

Author:Zack Snyder

“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

“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”

Thinking Moments Past Culture Growing Up Growing Malls Goth

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage.”

People Thinking Giving Made Stills Use Christian Culture Waiting Christianity Groups Modern Genius Messages Symbols Worldview Dilemma Disadvantages

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.”

Thinking Should Christian Culture Speak Religious Poverty Issues Extremes Hypocrisy Global Warming Voters Christian Right Extreme Poverty

Author:Al Franken

“I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.”

Thinking Giving School Culture Guilty Ems Bags

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“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!”

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Author:Jayma Mays

“France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.”

Thinking World Culture Left Accepting France Farmers Primitive Cowboy Dominating

Author:Adam Michnik

“I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.”

Thinking Culture Embrace Respect Life

Author:Bob McDonnell

“I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.”

Thinking Way Needs Seems Order Culture Interesting Sake Pops Museums Engaging Pop Culture

Author:John Hodgman

“I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.”

Thinking World Different Culture Ability Starting Privilege Different Cultures

Author:Chris Cornell

“I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.”

People Thinking Knows Wells Hard Political Culture Honest Advantage Treats Who I Am Sincere Senators I Am Who I Am Political Culture

Author:Joe Kyrillos

“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.”

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Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.”

Thinking Needs Form Culture Fiction Conflict Creating Science Fiction Western Aliens Robots Suspicious Hubris Western Culture Creating Something

Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.”

Thinking Different America Culture Marketing France Britain Consumerism Different Cultures

Author:Pierre Dukan

“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?”

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Author:Lauren Greenfield

“I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.”

People Thinking Said Ideas Real Matter Lasts Night Song Culture Girl Left Situation Subjects Albums Pops Pop Culture Subject Matter Duran Duran

Author:Nick Rhodes

“I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.”

Thinking Knows Matter Political Culture Left Sides Worry Healthy Economics Claims Wings Circles Certainty Skepticism Boldness Right Wing Biased Left Wing Aisle

Author:David Plotz

“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.”

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Author:Malina Suliman

“I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like... spectacle.”

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Author:J. Robbins

“Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!”

Thinking Humans Religion Culture Psychology Ethics Cosmology Religion And Politics

Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

“In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.”

People Thinking Looks Persons Matter Culture Differences Judging Taste Democratic Suggestions Threatening Offended Good And Bad Bad Taste

Author:Roger Scruton

“So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.”

People Thinking Culture Walks Laughing Pride Miracle Fats Unrelenting Being Fat

Author:Camryn Manheim

“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 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 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.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“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

“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

“In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.”

Thinking Ends Motivational Turns Culture Grows Growing Up Terrible Terrible Things Something Better Setback

Book:I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There

Source: I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There

“Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.”

People Thinking Want Stills Culture Becoming Selling Copies Outdated Mp3

Author:Diplo

“When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.”

Thinking I Can Real Helping Age Culture Loneliness Illusion Connections Access Instant Popular Culture Real Connection

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.”

“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.”

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Author:Gagan Narang

“It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying, 'This is my camino, this is my path and I'm gonna follow it, regardless of what culture says.' I don't think the church likes chingonas. I don't think the state likes chingonas.! And fathers definitely do not like chingonas. And boyfriends don't like chingonas. But, you know, I remain optimistic. I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come.”

Thinking Knows Men Feels Long States Culture Father Church Path One Day Long Time Likes Optimistic Aspire Alright

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.”

Thinking Important Today Culture Social Media Huge Internet Smart Social Media Staying Online

Author:G. Hannelius

“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.”

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