Theodore Roethke Quotes
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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.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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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.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
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In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown away by the spirit of that country.
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Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
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Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.
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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
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My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!
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Social enterprise is an effective solution for social problems.
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Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.
