Culture Quotes - Page 58

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.

I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them to create works that have an element of exoticism, the kind typical of Japanese culture. I don't do that.

In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

Social media does not change your culture, it reveals it.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no support from the health clinics with their problems. Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

Listen to customers and you will hear them. Look carefully at customers and you will see them. Do both and you will understand them.