At issue when professional sports teams take the name of Native Americans is the problem of mimicry: having appropriated the land and wealth of America's vanquished peoples, settler culture then appropriates the supposed values and spirit of the vanquished as well.
Greg Grandin
SportsCultureNameAmericaProblem
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die - and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days.
Michael Korda
GoodCultureWorldDieHideParis
We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.
Claire Messud
WomenLiveCultureAngerFaceThink
On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'
Tyra Banks
SmileEyesCultureWalkingAmerica
We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.
Robert Lepage
CultureIntelligenceUnderestimate
I'm going to work on food culture and help food become fun and part of peoples' lives again. The traditional restaurant is more commercial-oriented. But I want community through food.
Kimbal Musk
WorkCommunityFoodCultureFun
Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.
Rithy Panh
LifeCultureFootballWantWithout
You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.
Diane Paulus
GoodCommunityCultureExperience
We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.
Alice Waters
LifeCultureFocusQualityDayCare
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
John Cage
MusicCultureBetterEntertainment
I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.
Mario Vargas Llosa
GoodCultureThinkLiteratureYou
Hollywood pushes a liberal agenda to the rest of the country. And, whether we like it or not, Hollywood dictates the culture of the country.
Stacey Dash
CultureRestCountryHollywoodLike
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
Greg Lynn
LifeCultureCareYouWayEveryday
I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive.
Mira Nair
CultureHappyMeWorldSpeakValues
If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.
Claudio Ranieri
StyleCultureYouPlayGoHere
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
Twyla Tharp
ArtShoesCultureMeaningSerious
You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played 'Gingerbread Boy' 'cos he and Jimmy Heath were cool, you know? That's how the culture goes.
Robert Glasper
CultureCoolYouCreatePlayKnow
'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading.
Kevin Gates
CultureReadingSayWayUrbanLike
This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the water of our culture. But mainstream sources - schools, textbooks, media - don't provide us with the multiple perspectives we need.
Robin DiAngelo
WaterCultureSwimmingMediaLiving
The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.
Dennis Prager
CultureReligionAmericaDoingDone
Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people.
Alicia Garza
CulturePeopleWhiteBearRight
Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
Jerry Reinsdorf
ChangeCultureBaseballSocietyRole
My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.
Marjane Satrapi
FamilyCultureCitySickYouThree
Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture, you can explore their experience, you can explore an issue through human beings who are going through it.
Soledad O'Brien
CultureExperienceSchoolPeopleYou
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