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Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.
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.
Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.
I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.
Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .
I've been to Australia several times, and I just like the earthiness; it's part of the culture. That's a really good vibe to be around.
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.
It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.
I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?
Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.
Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.
I'm quite connected to Italy because of Italian Vogue shoots and the Pirelli calendar, so I have a love and appreciation for the culture.
An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.
Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.