The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.
Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.
That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.
That has been one of the best, most rewarding things about being an actor - traveling throughout the world, meeting all kinds of different people and learning about other cultures.
I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.
What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.
They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
