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Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.
Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.
Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".
Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.
It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.
Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.
China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation.
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.
I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.
The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.
People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.
How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?
Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.
If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.
Sex and graduation night is a rather common thing in our culture, as a celebration of turning 18 and getting out of school, or just of liberation.
The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.
I've been all over the world, and to be in Milan and see guys dressed as Jake and Elwood is amazing. They really have become a part of the culture.
Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.
Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.
Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.
We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.