Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. – Haruki Murakami
Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic. – Gunnar Myrdal
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. – Gates McFadden
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. – Hu Shih
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. – Helen Fisher
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church – like the corporation – to be successful. – Henri Nouwen
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting ‘big ideas’ pieces. – Hanna Rosin
I’m meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It’s more my problem than Hollywood’s. I’m not attuned to Hollywood. – Henry Selick
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills? – Hugh Mackay
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere. – Helena Christensen
Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it’s based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions. – Howard Schultz
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists. – Herbert Read
It’s obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture – African culture, period. – Hugh Masekela
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That’s leadership. – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another. – Harry Mathews
I didn’t choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. – Helen Dunmore
But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them. – Hugh Shelton
I’m quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you’re too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children. – Hugh Grant
Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature. – Harrison Ford
People won’t stop painting, just as they won’t stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don’t stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don’t need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people. – Gerhard Richter
Some version of ‘Deal or No Deal’ airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it’s the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck. – Howie Mandel
The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice. – Hassanal Bolkiah
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We’re going on a downward spiral. – Heather Mills
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture. – Howard Schultz
There’s something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. – George Hickenlooper
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what’s actually happening to our culture? – Hugh Mackay
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. – Henry Flynt
While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education… I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state. – Hiram Rhodes Revels
Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it. – Haldan Keffer Hartline
