I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

I think France should be free, independent, and be the cultural heart of the world because those play a balance in the world.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.

We are a nation of film lovers, and films have often been a cultural glue that binds us all in a way that transcends geography.

In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

I am proud of being a Somali-American Muslim, and my wardrobe has been an important part of my religious and cultural upbringing.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

I'm fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

As a child, I was a victim of bullying because of my cultural background. I didn't look like all the other kids. I had a funny name.

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

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