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“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.”

Ifs Men Children Used Song Culture Imagine Music Is Singing Ultimate Old Man Swings Imagine That Rope Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?”

Ifs Christian Culture Imagine Impact Riches

Author:Richard Stearns

“When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.”

Age Culture Imagine My Friends African American American Culture African American Culture

Author:Johnny Otis

“Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.”

People Way Heart I Can Important Stories Spirit Culture Literature Parent Imagination Imagine Best Way Storytelling Heart To Heart

Author:Alice Walker

“There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.”

Art Culture Imagine Painting Pops Pop Culture Pop Art Retro

Author:Joe Bradley

“Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?”

People Ifs Way Looks Kind Care Culture Perfect Worry Imagine Car Computer Perfection Caring Compare Expensive Trinkets Stopped Caring Expensive Cars

Author:A.S. King

“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.”

Years Long Has Beens War Happens Culture Realizing Community Results Imagine Generations One Thing Economic Policy Victory Eternal Victim Including Defeat Disaster Ruins Regions Alas Serbia

Author:Susan Sontag

“If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.”

Ifs Want Should Country Faces Culture Wish Community Imagine Rejects Muslim Women

Author:Norman Tebbit

“You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.”

People Ifs World Years Has Beens Real Culture Wonder Imagine Impossible Groups Style Ten Singing Years Ago Indian Southern Signals Electronic Music Cockneys Amalgamation

Author:Alan Arkin

“The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.”

People Way Wells Stills Culture Fiction Imagine Science Fiction Native Territory Conventional

Author:William Gibson

“Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.”

Kind Character Film Night Culture Watches Imagine Impossible Strange Reflection Depressing Somewhere Else Inexplicable Storyline American Film

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.”

Way Certain Culture Imagine Mythology Subjective

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“Will we be able to imagine a new culture of water?”

Able Culture Water Imagine New Cultures

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.”

Used Culture Imagine Conversation Used To Be Genes Genetics

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“Imagine--the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!”

World Whole Culture Imagine Whole World Ass

Author:Herman J. Mankiewicz

“You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.”

People World Way Want Believe Law Culture Language Can Do Millions Imagine Products Fine Safe Okay Boring Trapped Traps Want U Cradle Molecules

Book:Invisible Monsters Remix

Source: Invisible Monsters Remix

“Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt.”

People Ifs Book Ideas Ends Use Might Would Be Culture Stars Attention Creativity Imagine Rocks Sells Shirts Designer Jeans T Shirt Rock Star Printed Attention Span Shampoo Printed Word

Author:Jim Trelease

“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.”

People Want Culture Lost Imagine Cookbook Substitution

Author:Mark Millar

“I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's responsibility to be engaged with the culture. And when the culture is going through turmoil, I think an artist can't ignore that. I don't feel that every artist has to be politically engaged, but I can't imagine that you can be an active participant of this culture and not in some way reflect that in the work you are creating.”

“I think there is an American attitude that is very hard to break which is "We're great. Who wouldn't want to be like us? Who wouldn't want to have the benefits of our largesse, handing out aid and having American companies based in their countries?" and "our culture is great," and all that. It's hard for us to imagine ourselves as not being the greatest country on earth.”

Thinking Want Country Hard Earth Culture Attitude Company Break Imagine Benefits Aids Largesse

Author:Hooman Majd

“We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It's unbelievable, yet it's part of that worship of individuality.”

Thinking Men Culture Imagine Honest Worship Vote Individuality Campaigns Capitalist Marvelous Unbelievable Honest Man

Author:James Hillman

“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.”

Ifs Knows Way Children Important Country Culture Understanding Forget Behinds Imagine Ready Europe Sensibility Educator What's Important Millennium

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“[Obama's] roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

Thinking War America Values Culture President Imagine Roots American Values

Author:Mark Penn