One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
Maajid Nawaz
CultureProblemsViewSocialFacing
The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It's one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.
Bill Foster
GreatBestCultureMoneyTryRural
There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
Kate Walsh
WomenCultureMomDifferentWays
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
Salman Rushdie
ChangeWomenArtCulturePeopleYou
VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.
Frances Beinecke
FreedomCultureCollegeYouthRoad
Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.
Sara Sheridan
CultureCreativeThinkValuesWall
While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
Benjamin Wittes
JusticeCultureDeathPeopleLegal
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
Larry Flynt
CultureDemocracyFreeSpeechBorn
I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
Betty Buckley
MyselfCultureWordsPeopleMeWhy
Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The boxing booths at English fairs featured women in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Katherine Dunn
WomenCultureBelieveEarlyBoxing
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
CultureWorldRememberYoungMuslim
In case you don't watch much TV or spend time with anyone under 40, 'Really?' is pop culture's pithiest way to deliver a withering put-down.
Faith Salie
TimeCultureYouWayWatchPop
If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.
Rebecca Hall
LoveHomeLiveCultureFeelChoose
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
Ben Barnes
LiveCultureMoreIndustryFilm
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
Laura Marling
TechnologyCharacterCultureWorld
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
CultureSchoolCivil RightsMovement
You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.
Kathryn Minshew
GoodCulturePeopleTeamBuilding
My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.
Sabaa Tahir
FatherMotherCultureReligionBorn
I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
Fedor Emelianenko
CultureI AmPeopleThinkRemember
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
CultureDemocracyViewCannot
I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.
Ben Mendelsohn
CultureSchoolThinkThoughtBag
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
Lady Gaga
LifeCulturePeopleJudgeMediaUs
In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.
Azita Ghanizada
FamilyMarriageGreatCultureYou
I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.
George C. Wolfe
CulturePeopleBlackConnectionCome
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