“A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.” IfsThinkingKnowsPersonsAbleBeautifulGuyCultureWalksLike YouPerceiveAttractiveFlawsRealisingCommodityBeautiful WomenIntimidatedImpurityAttractive Woman Author:Neil Strauss
“So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.” PeopleThinkingCultureWalksLaughingPrideMiracleFatsUnrelentingBeing Fat Author:Camryn Manheim
“The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.” WorldCultureWalksMetsHallsPortal Author:Thomas P. Campbell
“It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major city. I live in Toronto, and last year 3,000 people came out dressed as zombies.... I do not get it. Maybe it's an easy costume: Splash some ketchup on and rip up your jeans -- although most people already have torn jeans -- and you're done.” PeopleYearsDoneLastsCultureEasyWalksCitiesCreaturesMajorsLast YearTornJeansCostumesZombieRipPopular CultureTorontoKetchup Author:George A. Romero
“I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.” PeopleThinkingWritingNightCultureWalksLaughingPopsPop CultureMicrophonesMake Me Laugh Author:Demetri Martin
“Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. Its like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but its almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.” IfsPlayWholeHomeRunningKidsCultureWalksStreetsRunning AwayBeggingLiving OnCool ThingsAway From HomeOregonSquatPortlandPortland Oregon Author:Laura Ramsey
“Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.” ShouldDifferentCertainValuesCultureWalksAcceptingStreetsWestArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBikinisWesternersValue SystemsDifferent Values Author:John Cleese
“Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.” IfsDoeHomeHappensLyingNightCultureWalksTeachAwakeCheatVegasCheater Author:Tom Shadyac
“Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.” WayWritingBookFactsCultureHouseWalksBuildingDressesTiesWriting A BookBuilding Houses Author:Aime Cesaire
“The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.” TryingRealAmericaCultureWalksDressesAfrican AmericanBehaveAfros Author:Hugh Masekela
“LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.” PeopleDifferentAgeCultureEnjoyWalksHeardMetsUniversalBricksDifferent CulturesWalks Of LifeDifferent AgesLegosDifferent Walks Of Life Author:Nathan Sawaya
“I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayYearsLongCultureWalksRiskThirtyPlusProgressiveSpellsMainstreamSwingsGoddessDiscourseWay Of ThinkingRisk-takingHyperDominatingWalks Of LifePendulums Author:Ani DiFranco
“My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.” IfsDifferentWholeCultureParentWalksTownsDucksSmall TownLouisianaDifferent Cultures Author:Bun B
“One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'” PeopleNeedsCultureTermWalksCompanyOne ThingHallsFrontiersMicrosoftUsability Author:Bill Gates
“Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.” PeopleShouldArtCultureWalksHolyTreatsHorseParksHallsMuseumsConcertsPigsBedroomAutomobileBicycleAssemblyMotorcycleCathedralsNational ParksMulesDeferenceHoly Places Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire