I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.
It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.
We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
