John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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• I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Girl
  • Culture
  • Myself

• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Important
  • American

• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Culture

• I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Identity

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • Voice
  • Limit

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Culture
  • Peaceful

• I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Think
  • Culture

• If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Culture
  • Trump
  • Moment

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • People
  • Culture
  • Knowledge

• Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Religion

• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Remember
  • Books
  • Paper

• I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Political
  • Model

• When you do a meet and greet, every single girl wants something special from you - an extra little hug or something. And that takes something out of you, almost - like, emotionally, you know.

  

  Jonah Marais Why Don't We
  • Girl
  • Single
  • Hug

• There's a lot of, you know, kind of train wreck TV reality shows out there. And I think Tori & Dean is a great show that really focuses on family, focuses on couples to show that everyone can watch together and enjoy. And that's what makes me the most proud.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Proud

• I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.

  

  John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Culture