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Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold. — Paul Kurtz

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. — Eric Hobsbawm

I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason. — Malcolm Gladwell

Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature. — Derrick Jensen

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. — Werner Herzog

Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years. — Martin Durkin

It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world — Sharon Kay Penman

antithetical to the new Germanic cultural identity undermined — Anne-Marie O'Connor

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way. — Adam Lamberg

The forces of procrastination, self-doubt, worry, cultural expectations, even family and friends, can hold your life in place, like Gravity. — Matt Gersper

There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it. — Frederic Martel?

Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth? — Jeff Brown

Who we are as African-Americans, as black folks in the diaspora, our cultural destiny, has been shaped by both the enslaved and the free. — Bell Hooks

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'. — Tim Bajarin

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation. — Sara Sheridan

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution. — Stephen LaBerge

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American. — David Cronenberg

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

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses. — Tom Hiddleston

With courage of adventure, you can overcome the culture shock in a visit to a new country. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away. — Clara Shih

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. — Junot Diaz

On every travel, we saw beautiful landscapes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It — Garry Kasparov

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. — Junot Diaz

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution. — E. O. Wilson

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper. — Mahatma Gandhi

Discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, Your ace is just a social construct. — Mark Steyn

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. — Will Durant

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. — Malcolm X

A lot of what you presume to be evidence of your intelligence is just part of a vast cultural inheritance. — David McRaney

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. — Eloisa James

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background. — Coco Lee

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait. — Rose Byrne

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

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

I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges. — Jennifer Egan

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references" — Tim Burton

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny. — Michelle Bachelet

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. — Helen Fisher

We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre — Steven Biko

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century. — Tariq Ali

The uniqueness of individuals is the diversity of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate. — Brock Yates

I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done. — Sean Combs

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. — George W. S. Trow

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism. — Satish Kumar

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness. — Thomas Merton

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice. — Alan Lomax

Cultural purity is an oxymoron (Saunders just quoted this). — Doug Saunders

Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. — Lawrence Eagleburger

Line of control should be a garden, a place of art and cultural festival. — Amit Ray

My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means. — Aasif Mandvi

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us. — Brent Staples

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place. — Eugenie Scott

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries. — Wang Jianlin

Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture. — John H. Walton

Few things are more sublime or characteristically human than the cross-fertilization of cultures. — Charles C. Mann

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles. — Eli Broad

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. — Zubin Mehta

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. — Nikki Giovanni

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world. — William J. Clinton

I just wanted to do something important. — Norman Rockwell

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic. — Dov Davidoff

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars. — Jim Leach

Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo. — Frank Furedi

In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites. — Jean Francois Revel

I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC. — George Brandis

Aspects of culture can also be described as vestigial, where once-adaptive cultural adaptations become maladaptive when environments change. — Anonymous

Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity. — Karen L. Garst

Political correctness is a war on noticing. — Steve Sailer

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

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. — Billy Corgan

Some people don't want to take time to differentiate between what is mystical and the truth; and what is cultural and biblical. Don't be lazy! — Assegid Habtewold

Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers. — Nicholas Ostler

As cultural politics change, museums change with them. — Sharon Waxman

Education is the lifeblood of museums. — Monica O Montgomery

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values. — Zack Snyder

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

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

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

Sound is the hard currency; meaning is the network of cultural and formal conventions that turns it into a stick of gum at the
candy store. — Randy Allen Harris

Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement. — Dorothy Lamour

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. — Ruth Benedict

After four movies, three concerts, and two-and-a-half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events. — Lorrie Moore

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it. — Ani DiFranco

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones. — Orlando Bloom

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung. — Ferdinand Marcos

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. — Beeban Kidron

Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness. — S. Kelley Harrell

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life. — Clemence Poesy

Cultural debates are always conflicts between orthodoxies. — Anonymous

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another. — Deborah J. Levine

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. — Tim Berners-Lee

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? — Newt Gingrich