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“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.”

“Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.”

Source: House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

“That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.”

Writing Trying Song Culture Growing Up Growing Negative Stones Catchy Motown Credence

Author:Dan Auerbach

“When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.”

Want Culture Generations Effects Stones Sensitive

Author:Steve Stoute

“I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.”

Men Firsts Culture Fighting Conditions Holy Stones Constant Architecture Man And Nature

Author:Mario Botta

“My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.”

War Real Soul Earth Culture Stuff Parent Wonder Fire Heard Rocks Wind Grew Grew Up Stones Towns Classic Freak Isolated Small Town Pennsylvania Hendrix Zeppelins Old Soul Classic Rock

Author:Princess Superstar

“I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they do that. Anyway, it was always sort of ridiculous, me having anything to do with the youth culture, but now that I'm in my 50s, it's extra-double-ridiculous. They were losing interest in me, and I was losing interest in them. When I went to renegotiate my contract at Rolling Stone, I kind of halfheartedly asked if I could do half the work for half the money, and they asked if I could do two-thirds of the work for half the money. I ran that by my agent, since he can do math.”

“If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.”

Ifs Thinking Way May Art Character Light Form Culture Speak Color Personality Speech Stones West Climate Western Minors Geography Pyramids Western Culture Light And Color

Book:The American West as Living Space

Source: The American West as Living Space

“The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.”

Culture House Church Modern Stones Window Glasses Eyeglasses Modern Culture Stained Glass Glass Houses

Book:THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH

Source: THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH

“When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.”

Men Real Facts Stories Reality Faces Science Culture Break History Written Rocks Pages Stones Scientist Exposed Hammers Printed

Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science