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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
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
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
With courage of adventure, you can overcome the culture shock in a visit to a new country.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
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
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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
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
The uniqueness of individuals is the diversity of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.
— Thomas Merton
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
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
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
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
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
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 thecandy 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
If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.
— Deborah J. Levine
