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“Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything that isn't working out perfectly every time.”

Thinking Culture Acting Work Out Spoiled Brat Spoiled Brat

Author:Frank Miller

“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Culture Left Difficult Black Land Broken Connections Stronger South Developing Who We Are Pavement Transplants

Author:August Wilson

“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

“Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.”

Thinking Men Writing Culture Energy Creating Men Women Pouring

Book:THE DIALECTIC OF SEX

Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX

“I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.”

Thinking Needs Feels Different Culture Cities Building Essence India Architect Singapore Kansas Arkansas Kansas City

Author:Moshe Safdie

“As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.”

Thinking Giving Children Important Stories Certain Culture Father Grew Dad Grew Up South Expected Hug Baths Diapers

Author:Clyde Edgerton

“I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.”

Thinking Culture 80s Geek Gears Nostalgic

Author:Ernest Cline

“John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.”

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.”

“I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.”

Thinking Hard Culture Music Is Notion Linked Preconceived Notions

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.”

Thinking Men Trying Bigs Running Culture Parent Youth Statements Youth Culture

Author:Chris Lilley

“The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Children Body Used Certain Culture Individual Social Community Hurt Economic Raises Mere Mold

Author:Michael Gurian

“I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.”

Thinking Ideas School Culture Growing Up Growing Machines Engineering Perpetual Intrigued

Author:Mike Duke

“The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.”

Thinking Used Culture Teach Knowing Computer Program Mediums Presentation Great Power Simulation Powerpoint

Author:Sherry Turkle

“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

“I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.”

Thinking Feels Trying Two Artist Culture Enjoy Position Broken Always Trying Mediation Two Cultures

Author:K'naan

“They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Light Culture Left Space Air Planets Flying Aliens Lifts Monument Vacuums Runway Flying Saucers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.”

“I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.”

Thinking Beautiful Culture Figures Conform Genetics Latina Curvy

Author:Demi Lovato

“I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.”

Thinking Culture Laughter Originals Native Crucial Native American Seriousness

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.”

People Thinking Want Culture Sensibility Popular Culture Avant Garde Looking Down Elitism

Author:Robert Wyatt

“The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.”

Thinking Needs Mean Feelings Purpose Values Culture Causes Greater Contentment True Happiness

Author:Tom Shadyac

“I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.”

Thinking Culture Stuff Conflict Downtime

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“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.”

“I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.”

Thinking Culture Literature Fashion Approach Thoughtful Fades Infallible Fads

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.”

Thinking Trying Important Hard Culture Taste Regard Important Things Tolerate Worn Coats Fur Lice Fur Coats

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“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

“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”

Ifs Thinking World Believe May Culture Found Progress Generations Good Things Seeking Morrow

Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days.”

Thinking Culture Factories Old Days Think Of Me Sausage

Author:Christopher Poole

“Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.”

Thinking Different Values Culture Creative Wall Industry England South Scotland Hadrian Creative Industries

Author:Sara Sheridan

“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”

Thinking World Book Sometimes Seems Order Culture Window Glasses Wide Noses Mainstream Plates Living My Life Bookstores Circulation I Live My Life Slick Mainstream Culture

Book:Books & Life

Source: Books & Life

“I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.”

Thinking Culture Happened Overcoming Defeat Following Decades Canada Confederation

Author:Stephen Harper

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.”

Thinking Way Culture Unique Borders Canada

Author:Stephen Harper

“I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Culture Actors Poor Cases Theater Blame Culture Change

Author:Christopher Reeve

“The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.”

“People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.”

People Thinking Years Country Culture Animal Race Horse Familiar Relate Collectives

Author:Steven Spielberg

“When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.”

Thinking Men Looks Persons Play Culture Murder Truman

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.”

People Thinking Should Soul Problem Culture Names Black Consciousness Talking Identity Products Slavery Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Black People One Word

Author:KRS-One

“I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.”

Thinking Needs Culture Responsibility Media Tears Approach Intellectual Responsible Raises Property Hip Hop Rap Handle Hips Journalist Hops Print Educate Intellectual Property Depiction

Author:KRS-One

“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

“The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.”

People Thinking Kind Art I Can Feelings Body Age Culture Belief Process Interesting Views Alive Tradition Ugly Greek Load Principal Bullshit I'm Alive Energizing Rodin

Author:John Coplans

“So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.”

Thinking Years Two Done Shows Able Culture Three Share New York Fairs Theater Incredibles Fortunate Three Times Fair Share Live Theater

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Culture Principles Violence Racism Universal Currents Tendencies Recognise Propensity

Author:Sam Harris

“I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.”

Thinking Way Real States Culture Nations United United States Optimistic Borders Frontiers Real Strength

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.”

Ifs Thinking Should Believe Happens Form Culture Nations Millions Democracy Pulling Incapable Crossings Rio History And Culture

Author:Ann Coulter

“There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.”

“Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence.”

Thinking Mind Matter Together Artist Culture Girl Change Attitude Talking Our Lives Violence Example Unique Campaigns What Matters Violence Against Women Power To Change Together We Can

Author:Barack Obama

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