Lauren Greenfield Quotes

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

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• And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• 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

• 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

• There's nothing more American than movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • American
  • Movies
  • Nothing

• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Question
  • Photography
  • Environmental

• 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

• 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.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • You
  • Order

• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Different
  • Culture
  • English

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

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Culture
  • Trump
  • Moment

• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • May
  • American

• I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Women
  • American
  • Wind

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Water

• I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious me. And that truly has happened.

  

  Jen Lancaster

• When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Learn
  • Guitar
  • Guilty

• Naivete is the real reason I applied to Juilliard. I wanted to study drama and not musical theater because I have a hard time dancing. I only applied there.

  

  Gayle Rankin
  • Time
  • Real
  • Study

• There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour into superficiality, and although I disagree with those people, I don't think it's the case that everyone who writes has to write politically or has to write in opposition to the really horrendous things that are going on on a political level in the world today. There are some writers who simply aren't any good at that and really should stay away from it.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

  

  James Goldsmith
  • Enough
  • Praise
  • Dignity

• My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

  

  Lauren Greenfield
  • American
  • Culture
  • Photography