583 Cultural Quotes for You to Enjoy

The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods. Dallas Willard

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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. Dan Savage

Marriage Important Expectation More Cultural Than Infidelity Fidelity Should

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences. Dannel Malloy

School Country Differences Some Born Reluctant Somewhat Cultural Hispanics Off American Send Children Central Found Early

One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence. Dave deBronkart

You Smart Thought Patient Carefully Assumption Way Out Must Stubborn Since Most Empowerment Learned Methodical Cultural Taught Really Hard Sequence Barriers Professionals Need

The rules changed for art around 1989. We were all loosed upon the canon to clip and paste and borrow and update. Only thing is, unless you were in New York or in a cultural studies program, that new paradigm probably wasn't going to sink in until the Internet arrived. David Berman

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Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here. David Caruso

Love Great World Living Melting Pots Cultural Miami Working Here

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global. David Crystal

In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage. David Gerrold

Great Library Culture Result Past Heritage Guardians Caring Nurtured Tending Selecting Maintained Cultural In The Past Works

I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing. David Henry Hwang

My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers. David Henry Hwang

Communicate Language Will White Broadway Hoping About New Make Deal Go Cultural Provincial Trying American Goes Which China Capital Bilingual Across Who Businessman Barriers Play

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing. David Maraniss

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. David Miliband

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise. David Novak

Truth Change Truth Is Synthesis Out Some Compromise Various Between Sort Does Opinions How Arrived Cultural Worked

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. Debbie Stabenow

Learning Youth Quality Programs Physical Emotional Develop Academic Safe Provide Cultural Children Experiences Social Skills Engaging Help Fun

As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations. Deborah Tannen

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We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach. Debra Granik

Awareness Other Other Countries Approach Countries Cultural Versus Dominating Cooperative Need

Living through the intersections of cultural diversity has given me an intimate understanding of the dynamics of living between the dimensions of East and West, traditional and modern, and political and spiritual. Deeyah Khan

Spiritual Me Political Diversity Understanding Living Intimate Dimensions East Given Through Between Traditional West Cultural Cultural Diversity Modern Dynamics

Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity. Deeyah Khan

Natural Humanity World Diversity Own Our Extremist Our World Religious Pluralism Seeking Fact Driven Accept Impose Cultural Human Refuse Movements Inability Pattern Tolerate Beliefs Basic Universal

I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I've tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life. Dennis Hopper

Life Music Art Writing Thought My Life Farm Painting Tried City Dodge Boy Always Cultural Vibe Just Kansas Acting Keep

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. Derek Walcott

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. Diane Wakoski

Sometimes Gender Out Poetry Myths Written Geographic Context Reference Cultural American Often Race Ethnic Landscape Origins

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