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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Losing

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

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • Voice
  • Limit

• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Up
  • World
  • Culture

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Love
  • Father
  • Girl

• 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!

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Speak

• St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • World
  • Culture
  • City

• 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.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Culture
  • You

• People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Culture
  • Modern

• 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.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• 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.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Culture
  • German

• I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Culture
  • England
  • Particularly

• I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Up
  • School
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • World
  • Great
  • Culture

• Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Life
  • Material
  • Masses

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Music
  • Important
  • Culture

• It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • American
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Culture

• I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Children
  • She
  • Science

• Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.

  

  Joie Lee

• My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

  

  Joe Taslim
  • Parents
  • Athlete

• I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Culture
  • Material
  • Impressed