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Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.
No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.
There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.
When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.
Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.
When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.
There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.
French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.
That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.
Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.
In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.