We have to train our kids better and really enforce in them that no matter what mainstream media and pop culture and all of the terrible things around us say - that it's OK to tear people down, that somehow it will make you feel better, and it's OK to gossip about people - it won't make you feel better.
Barrett Wilbert Weed
CulturePeopleBetterMediaYouSay
In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
Cynthia Nixon
CultureSchoolMomRichFamousYou
I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.
Lee Siegel
LoveCultureInternetDoingEveryone
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
Vera Wang
StyleCultureArchitectureSpeak
'Hamlet' is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims, but all people equally, showing that we all share the same problems regardless of religion, nation and culture.
Haris Pasovic
CultureReligionPeopleProblemsUs
In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies.
Virginia Postrel
CultureJudgeMediaLookStrangers
Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
Aisha Tyler
CultureYouFailPop CulturePop
My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture, being brought up among wealthy, privileged white people and having to cope and perform in ways that she has not been raised to do, and that was obviously drawn from some personal experiences.
N. K. Jemisin
CultureWomanPeopleBookColorYou
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner
WorkGreatCultureMoneyPeopleNew
It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
Chaske Spencer
CultureAmazingSomethingPop Culture
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
Lauren Greenfield
CultureAmericanPhotographyLook
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
Umberto Eco
CultureWantInfinityMakeDoes
We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
Gabriel Luna
GoodCultureTiredStartSeemGuy
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Vladimir Putin
CultureEnemyRussiaDifficultyNATO
I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.
Adam Yauch
CultureCompassionWorldSocietyUs
I think the culture and DNA of our organization is to take risks.
Nancy Dubuc
CultureRisksOrganizationThinkDNA
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
Barbara Kingsolver
ChildrenCultureHateDayLawYou
My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.
Chanel Iman
MusicCultureFunListeningWorld
If you love women, and you want to sing about love, don't feel the need to say 'he.' Don't feel the need to adapt to the society or the culture.
Lauren Jauregui
LoveWomenCultureSocietyFeelYou
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
Val Kilmer
CultureInfluenceMediaTelevision
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
LeadershipCulturePeopleYouSystem
Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.
Tessa Thompson
PowerCultureMediaCreateShift
I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the guy that wants to bring things back and push them forward.
Adrian Younge
LoveHistoryCultureForwardPush
We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
Naomi Watts
LifeCultureDeathThinkBetter
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