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Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.
Jhonen Vasquez

Past, Through, Moment

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.
Masaharu Morimoto

Change, Marriage, Food

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
William P. Leahy

Faith, Trying, Place

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
C. J. Cherryh

Living, Makes, Biology

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
Jonathan Coe

Life, Work, Happy

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
Gloria Estefan

Time, Sex, Simply

Cajun culture is dying.
Michael K. Williams

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
Pierre Bourdieu

Education, Work, Show

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

School, Rights, Started

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
Charlaine Harris

Youth, Interested, Eternal

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
Brad Bird

Pretty, Popular, Films

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
Johnny Rotton

Music, Mean, Genuine

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
Pat Boone

Good, Power, Try

In our culture, Christians are known for a number of other things... Rarely do you hear people say, 'Oh yeah, those are the people who never stop talking about love. Oh a Christian church - that's where you go if feel beaten down and kicked and someone has their boot on your neck. You go there because it's a place of healing and a place of love.'
Rob Bell

Love, Someone, Down

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

Age, Women, Lie

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
Tom Perrotta

Teacher, Writing, American

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.
Tom Perrotta

Religion, Time, Power

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
Anne Sullivan

Good, History, Help

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
David Amram

Peace, Society, Rock

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
David Amram

Wonderful, Speak, Ignored

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
Howard Gardner

Time, Knowledge, Important

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.
Wesley Morris

Good, Special, Soldier

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.
Matthew Sweet

Play, Popular, Shows

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
John Abbott

May, Ability, Increased

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
LeVar Burton

Forward, Long, Matter

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'
Keith O'Brien

Hope, Attitude, Justice

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.
Keith O'Brien

Religion, God, Christian

I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.
Toby Young

Food, Judge, Thinking

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
Rebecca De Mornay

American, Used, Move

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
Antoine Fuqua

Money, Down, Idea

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