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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

Culture Architecture Fashion Place

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

Power Culture People Political Down

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.

Daniel Woodrell

Good Live Time Culture Value People

Beer is such an integral part of the Indian culture.

Culture Beer Indian Culture Part

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

Myself Culture School Brooklyn Been

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Jacques Derrida

Culture Way Everything Arranged

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

Culture You Fast Know Right Going

There's so many funny things to say about being with Charlotte. I've worked on a few bits about it - not to be indiscreet but because the shock of culture and values is so interesting.

Funny Culture Interesting Values Say

Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.

Life Good Age Children Culture View

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

Culture Identity Stories Means Which

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Culture You Know Mean Pretty Seems

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.

Time Culture Sun Me Blind Apple

My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.

Kaya Scodelario

Love Mother Food Culture Me Proud

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture.

Takashi Murakami

Culture Kid Up Been Immersed Since

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture.

Culture Start Revolution Long Bad

I'm looking at looting photos from space, and there are people putting their lives on the line every day protecting their heritage. I call these people the real culture heroes.

Culture Day Space People Looking

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

Fear Culture Religion Body Go Real

'Shan shui' you can literally translate as 'mountain and water.' In traditional Chinese culture, there are a lot of paintings about shan shui, but now we're talking about a shan-shui city.

Water Culture Mountain City Talking

Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.

Culture Night Think American House

What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.

Work Art Culture Expectations Try

When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

Learning Culture Step Parents Doors

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

Culture Me American Kind Jazz Mark

Build an environment that empowers your team to take risks. Set metrics for what needs to be achieved and measure against them to track progress along the way. If targets aren't being met, challenge your team to reassess and come back with a new strategy. And create a culture where people are awarded for challenging the status quo.

Sandra E. Peterson

Challenge Culture Progress Risks

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

Future History Light Culture Past

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