Alexander Crummell Quotes
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
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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.
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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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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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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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The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.
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We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
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Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.
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Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.
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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
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Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
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It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.
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Drumming is my middle name.
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Governor Kempthorne of Idaho, our chairman of the National Governors Association, is doing a great job bringing all of the nation's governors together to work as partners with the federal government.
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
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Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
