No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.
If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.
Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
