Other Cultures Quotes - Page 2

• I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, People, Different

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• People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

  Chris Kilham

  Mean, Medicine, People

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• Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Incapacity, Term

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• It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

  Vandana Shiva

  Innovation, Corporations, United States

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We're evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it's only helping women. We do have much more work to do though, in spreading awareness about where we fall short in our culture and in other cultures.

  Barbara Crampton

  Fall, Helping, Awareness

  Source: collider.com

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• Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."

  Gillian Anderson

  Progress, Minorities, World

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I fell in love with food because of my mother. So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my culture (as well as many other cultures), and will be sharing recipes that I have experienced from my whole culinary life.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Mother, Recipes, Culinary

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

  Ted Allen

  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.

  Paulo Coelho

  Bridges, Long, Complicated

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• The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

  Larry McMurtry

  Long, Racist, Way

  "Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May 2014.

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• In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Thinking, America, Mysterious

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.

  Ibn Warraq

  New York, Believe, Civilization

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

  Alan Ball

  Want, Way, Youth

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• You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

  Ben Kingsley

  Play, Landscape, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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• In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Lying, Sleep, World

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the west towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

  Martin Jacques

  Heart, Colonialism, Eras

  "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

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• That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Helping, Fit

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• It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up call for our country, and we have a great opportunity now to reinvent ourselves. To rethink our position about oil and energy, to rethink our relationship with other cultures and other countries, and why other people want to attack us."

  Paul Auster

  Country, Opportunity, Oil

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Pain, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is still my responsibility to fight for her rights. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.

  Roxane Gay

  Believe, Responsibility, Fighting

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.

  Uwem Akpan

  Country, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

  John Boyega

  Long, People, Guy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

  Louise Erdrich

  Powerful, Vitality, Language

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• We [the USA] do have a big nation's problem. We have the problem of a nation that's got two oceans, oceans on either side. People come from all across the globe and want to live here and they want to work here and they want to invest here. And that's a good thing. And they make up this country. But as a people, we [americans] are not highly skilled in languages. We're not highly skilled in knowledge of other cultures. And that's a problem.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Ocean, Usa

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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