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So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.
Thom Mayne

Work, Art, Risk

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
Norman Lamm

Love, Good, Best

I'm more of a culture hummingbird.
Jai Rodriguez

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.
Henri Pirenne

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.
Alicia Machado

Education, Home, Nothing

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.
Reid Hoffman

Help, Philosophy, Wanted

There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.
Mark Kelly

Job, Trying, Difficult

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Charles W. Pickering

Financial, Media, Corrupt

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
Prince Andrew

American, Shows, Tv

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?
Donald Glover

Fight, Black, Try

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.
Alexander Skarsgard

Father, Two, Whole

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

Life, Time, Mind

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
William Irwin Thompson

Within, Mistake, Simply

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
William Irwin Thompson

Work, History, Teacher

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
Muriel Rukeyser

Life, Understand, Cannot

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
Eric Allin Cornell

American, Youth, Period

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.
Lawrence Wright

Political, Different, Sense

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.
Lawrence Wright

Live, Feelings, Two

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.
Jim Broadbent

Best, Fun, Understand

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
Margaret Spellings

Parents, Useful

Art is such an important part of our culture.
Rosanna Arquette

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.
Kathleen Hanna

Looking, Stuff, Conflict

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
Daniel Greenberg

Work, Today, Live

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.
Daniel Greenberg

Change, Age, Through

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.
Christian Marclay

Time, Art, Same

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
Tabitha Soren

American, Surprised

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
Chaske Spencer

Amazing, Pop, Phenomenon

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
John Howe

History, Art, Everything

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.
Joel Hodgson

Living, Sense, Year

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.
Toni Collette

Few, Left, Ways

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