Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not. – Tom Brady
It may well be, of course, that America’s pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don’t think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art. – Terry Teachout
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart. – Vikas Swarup
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. – Twyla Tharp
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. – William Irwin Thompson
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are. – Stewart Udall
Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products. – Wang Jianlin
That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset. – Sam Altman
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds for us – must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. – Stanislav Grof
The people of Florida’s 2nd Congressional District said, ‘Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington.’ I’ve taken their instructions very seriously. – Steve Southerland
Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the only magazines they subscribed to were ‘The Atlantic’ and ‘The New Yorker,’ broke down and got ‘Life’ magazine. – Sally Mann
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. – Wilhelm von Humboldt
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they’re getting older, et cetera. – Sela Ward
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization. – Vladimir Putin
Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker’s life. – Saul Zaentz
I don’t like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture. – Tom Brokaw
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past. – Sean Brady
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises. – Tamora Pierce
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. – Tommy Lee Jones
The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place – one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on. – Tracee Ellis Ross
With a movie you’re creating from the beginning this particular work, let’s not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let’s just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. – Sydney Pollack
There’s only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 – regardless of what the result of that is. – Todd Rundgren
If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we’ll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years – the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years – and it’s always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they’re the occupiers. – Trent Franks
I don’t see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting? – Thomas Kretschmann
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture – or what there is of it – pushing by force their system on others. – Viggo Mortensen
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. – Stephen Harper