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“Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.”

Thinking World Believe Art Culture I Believe Space I Believe In Activism Alternatives Not Sure New World Rise Above Rise Above It

Author:Eve Ensler

“The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.”

“The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.”

“if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.”

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Author:Lina Wertmuller

“Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.”

Thinking Culture Responsibility Illusion Taking Responsibility

Author:Terence McKenna

“We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.”

People Thinking Believe Made Culture Opinion Moved Lists Preference

Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.”

Thinking Culture Courses Difficult Disease Oneself Discrimination

Author:Chrystos

“Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?”

“I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.”

Thinking Past Beautiful Culture British Monarchy British Monarchy

Author:Jean-Marc Vallee

“I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.”

Thinking Want Artist Culture Contemporary Narrative

Author:Rachel Cusk

“I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.”

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Author:Ai-jen Poo

“I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.”

People Thinking Want Culture Sick Tired Nonsense Sincere Want Something Heartfelt Fluffy

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.”

People Thinking Has Beens Facts Culture President Technology Conscious Delight Pops Decline Expansion Pop Culture

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.”

Thinking Culture Speech Towns Presses Radio Newspapers Traditional Stations Rooted Freedom Of Speech American Culture Freedom Of The Press Radio Stations

Author:Pete Seeger

“I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.”

Thinking Way Long Stills Culture Simple Goes On Cooking Everyday Long Way Rebuilding Long Way To Go

Author:Michael Pollan

“People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.”

Thinking Turns Culture Parent Voice Ability Teacher Who You Are Critical Turn Off

Author:Robert Greene

“I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.”

Thinking Trying Book Culture Literature Majority Video Native Native American American Literature Recorders

Author:Sherman Alexie

“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.”

“I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.”

People Thinking Want Writing Book Culture Actors Assuming Intention Exploits

Author:Jonah Hill

“Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.”

People Thinking Said Ends Film Culture Fabric Cool Things

Author:Alex Winter

“I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place.”

Ifs Thinking Culture Pops Better Place Pop Culture

Author:Cote de Pablo

“I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.”

Thinking Believe Stories Film Culture I Believe Strive I Believe In Theatre Storytelling

Author:Andy Serkis

“I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.”

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Author:Ashley Jensen

“I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.”

Thinking Should Made Running Age Culture Enemy Clear Position Western Made It Sentiments Adoption Adversaries Intercourse Western Culture

Book:The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

Source: The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

“People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.”

People Thinking Culture China Bread Japan Asian Taiwan Food Culture Asian Culture

Author:David Chang

“I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.”

Thinking World Children Real Values Culture Courses Difficult Teach Eating Embedded Fast Food Real Questions Food Culture Eating Fast Food Slow Food

Author:Alice Waters

“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.”

“If you want to interest people, make them think. If you want to inspire people, make them feel.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Feels Culture Interest Inspire Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“If your customers have to ask you for it, you haven't been thinking far enough ahead.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Culture Asks Havens Customers Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Wells Important Remember Culture Customers Factors Service Culture Getting Along

Book:How To Sell Your Way Through Life

Source: How To Sell Your Way Through Life

“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

“In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.”

Thinking Young Choices Culture Black Dark White Novel Reader Adults Absolutes Young Adult Defined Gray Shade Satisfying Black And White Shades Of Gray

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million unborn children in the last 40 years. I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.”

“As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.”

Thinking Kind School Artist Culture Team Middle Missing Youth Strange Type Normal Vices Teenager Sensitive Captains Mixtures Public School Rugby Youth Culture Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Mark Haddon

“I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.”

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Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.”

Thinking Trying Littles Bigs Culture Bits Goodness Little Bit Starting About Yourself Starting Point

Author:David Brooks

“I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires.”

Thinking Should Enough Seems Culture Creatures Should Have Stuck Vampire Cinema Imaginary Zombie Werewolf Popular Culture Minotaur

Author:Neil Jordan

“People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.”

Thinking Want Should Real Lasts Culture Talking Forever My Family Should Have Appreciation Chicago Grandpa

Author:Patrick Stump

“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.”

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.”

People Thinking Culture Bars Nightclubs Meeting New People

Author:Aziz Ansari

“The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

“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

“One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.”

People Thinking Littles Culture Locals Tourism Disparaging

Author:Paul Theroux

“There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.”

Thinking World Way Important Culture Lost Rooms Emotion Tools Protection Contemporary Irony Ironic Seriousness Straightforward Earnestness

Author:John Green

“I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.”

People Thinking Men Culture Too Much Gender Scare Fundamentalism Experimentation Hysteria Hostage

Author:RuPaul

“Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Different Culture Objects Reader Calling Ordinary Distance Representing Exotic Emulate

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.”

Thinking Persons Doe States Culture Cold Expectations Discovery Faults Warmth Womb Cold Outside

Book:Earthly Powers

Source: Earthly Powers

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