“I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.” PeopleBookCulturePopsJanePop CultureLike HerAustenBronte Author:Laura Marling
“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.” PeopleWritingRealityFormCultureLeftWonderComedyTvsStandardsRomanticHarderEntertainmentGenreClassicLegitimacyReality Tv Author:Nancy Meyers
“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.” PeopleThinkingWellsImportantHappensCultureForceDangerousCommunicateMoraleBad Politics Author:Aaron Levie
“The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.” PeopleKnowsFirstsHumansMadeStillsFallCultureKnownLongingGoing AwayDeep InsideDeepest FearOur Deepest Fear Author:John Ortberg
“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.” PeopleThinkingLongPoliticalCultureCoursesImpossiblePerspectiveLong TimeFascinatedSecularIgnored 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.” PeopleThinkingCultureGriefSadnessEdges Author:Anthony Rapp
“I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.” PeopleLongIdeasDifferentCultureLong TimeObsessedOutlookDifferent CulturesDoomsday Author:Lorene Scafaria
“People often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.” PeopleCultureAsksLeftCasesNewsManagementCorporateDisgustingColleaguesGatheringCnnCorporate Culture Author:Greta Van Susteren
“In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.” PeoplePersonsCultureTaughtOppositesMysticismGood PersonDrains Author:Frederick Lenz
“A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.” PeopleCountryWholeCultureLanguageAttentionAwarenessTelevisionBuddhismCollectives Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleThinkingKindCultureStuffLevelsTherapyShockCoarseShock Therapy Author:Matt Stone
“When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.” PeoplePlayShowsCultureMassAppealsJapanPopular CultureCommercialization Author:Matthew Sweet
“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.” PeopleWayProblemRealitySeemsDiesCultureProcessDifficultDealsShotsSexyGrievingBizarreReally Sad Author:Michael Sheen
“Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.” PeopleWayPlayTogetherCultureSportsEnjoyRelaxLeisureAnother WayListening To MusicGratificationTime To Relax Author:Pope Francis
“The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.” PeopleCultureBreakTelling The TruthOfficersDragIntelligence Officers Author:George Tenet
“Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!” PeopleDoeCultureAccepted Author:Armstrong Williams
“Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.” PeopleWantHumansStatesCultureUnitedUnited StatesReactionsJapanKillersTerrifiedRobotsVaryChanges Over Time Author:Daniel H. Wilson
“Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.” PeopleKnowsWaySometimesCultureLevelsTypeDeeperBackgroundsSnobbery Author:Irvine Welsh
“As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.” PeopleTryingCultureRealizingChallengesNiceBiggerSpheresBeing NiceTrying To Change Author:Mike White
“My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.” PeopleWorldWellsCountryShowsCultureLiteratureUniqueFolksChineseCustomsWorld Literature Author:Mo Yan
“In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.” PeopleIfsKnowsLastsCultureFiguresVillainCaptainsFigure SkatingBond MovieTycoonsJames Bond Movie Author:Thomas Frank
“Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility of catastrophic climate change is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.” PeopleShowsMovingCultureMillionsEnvironmentSacrificeLandFrontsPossibilityWillingDependsResourcesVoteMajorityClimateClimate ChangeOilShouldersAdministrationVehicleBurnedEcologyRelentlessBarrelsCleanersUnifiedIrreplaceablePristineProbingRenewable Resources Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.” PeopleArtCultureChristianityCarIndustrySteelCoal Author:Melvyn Bragg
“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.” PeopleThinkingGivingMadeStillsUseChristianCultureWaitingChristianityGroupsModernGeniusMessagesSymbolsWorldviewDilemmaDisadvantages Author:Francis Schaeffer