Cultural Quotes
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Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future.
Marye Tharp
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Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one`s awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one`s brothers and sisters.
Addison Gayle, Jr.
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A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable ene...
Vanna Bonta
Keywords: amount :: an :: and :: be :: being :: billion :: cultural :: cure :: daily :: dedicatedly :: dollars :: enemy :: food :: for :: formidable :: friends :: furiously :: helping :: indispensable :: making :: money :: month :: of :: on :: peace :: people :: same :: shelter :: source :: spending :: support :: the :: toward :: war :: wouldSubject: Celebrity Quotes :: Change Quotes :: Dreams Quotes :: Help Quotes :: Ideas Quotes :: Peace Quotes :: Sanity Quotes :: Social Change Quotes :: Vision Quotes :: War QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton`s cultural shock troops participate in homosexual rights fund raisers but boycott gun rights fund raisers - and then claim it`s time to place homosexual men in tents with boy scouts and suggest that sperm-donor...
Charlton Heston
Keywords: and :: blood :: boy :: boycott :: but :: claim :: clinton :: cultural :: donor :: find :: fund :: gun :: homosexual :: in :: it :: men :: my :: participate :: place :: pressure :: raisers :: rights :: rising :: scouts :: shock :: sperm :: suggest :: tents :: that :: then :: time :: to :: troops :: when :: withSource: imdb.com
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But there`s a very limited pool of finance in the UK. To be honest, it`s a very clubby kind of place. In Hollywood there`s a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there`s a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, th...
Christopher Nolan
Keywords: almost :: appetite :: be :: but :: can :: clubby :: cultural :: england :: finance :: for :: great :: hollywood :: honest :: in :: it :: kind :: limited :: new :: of :: openness :: people :: place :: pool :: suspicion :: terms :: that :: the :: there :: to :: uk :: very :: voraciousSource: imdb.com
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Pride [and Prejudice] is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I`ve come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfillment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.
Joe Wright
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The Cultural Revolution was a very special period of Chinese history, unique in the world. It was part of my youth. It happened between when I was 16 and when I was 26. During those 10 years, I witnessed so many terrible and tragic things. For many years,...
Yimou Zhang
Keywords: 10 :: 16 :: 26 :: and :: between :: chinese :: cultural :: during :: for :: happened :: have :: history :: in :: it :: many :: my :: of :: part :: period :: revolution :: so :: special :: terrible :: the :: things :: those :: tragic :: unique :: very :: was :: when :: witnessed :: world :: years :: youthSource: imdb.com
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It`s funny to realize, but in my relatively short life I have lived through six or seven different social and cultural systems. First the Democratic Republic of Czechoslovakia, then the limited democracy before World War II, then the Nazi regime. After th...
Milos Forman
Keywords: after :: and :: before :: but :: cultural :: czechoslovakia :: democracy :: democratic :: different :: first :: funny :: have :: ii :: in :: it :: life :: limited :: lived :: my :: naz :: nazi :: of :: or :: realize :: regime :: relatively :: republic :: seven :: short :: six :: social :: systems :: the :: then :: through :: to :: war :: worldSource: imdb.com
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I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I`m not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
Jim Jarmusch
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I`m a drifter and an outsider. There`s not one single environment I can totally belong to. My cultural roots are something illusive.
Ang Lee
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I have the impression that the images that surround us today are worn out, they are abused and useless and exhausted. They are limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. When I look at the postcards in tourist shops and the...
Werner Herzog
Keywords: abused :: and :: are :: at :: behind :: cultural :: dragging :: evolution :: exhausted :: have :: im :: images :: impression :: in :: limping :: look :: of :: our :: out :: postcards :: rest :: shops :: surround :: that :: the :: themselves :: they :: today :: tourist :: us :: useless :: when :: wornSource: imdb.com
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I`m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That`s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it`s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Denzel Washington
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I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there`s a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.
Christopher Eccleston
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I don`t think these women are stupid. I think they`re selling a personality that`s very marketable: Wouldn`t it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn`t have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, "I`m stupid, isn`t it cute?" makes...
Reese Witherspoon
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I have to accept the fact that these films have had a fantastic effect on people, and to deny that doesn`t make any sense until I do something that has the same cultural and social impact of those movies. That`s just the way it is.
Molly Ringwald
Keywords: accept :: and :: any :: cultural :: deny :: do :: doesn :: effect :: fact :: fantastic :: films :: had :: has :: have :: impact :: is :: it :: just :: make :: movies :: of :: on :: people :: same :: sense :: social :: something :: that :: the :: these :: those :: to :: until :: waySource: imdb.com
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My father`s family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security. It was as if the w...
Ang Lee
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I was 18 when I saw Akira Kurosawa`s Shichinin no samurai (1954). After about 30 seconds, I realized that this was not just a cultural thing, it was universal. Years later, I read Bushido. It talked about many things that I strive for in my own life: loya...
Tom Cruise
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Good films are good films regardless of being made in India or abroad. I believe a great story transcends cultural lines and language barriers. (American Way Magazine, 3-15-06)
Aishwarya Rai
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On Hollywood: "A cultural boneyard."
Marlon Brando
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it`s not acceptable.
Jodie Foster
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The Americans who went to Iwo Jima knew it would be a tough fight, but they always believed they`d win. The Japanese were told they wouldn`t come home - they were being sent to die for the Emperor. People have made a lot out of that very different cultura...
Clint Eastwood
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Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manife...
Alexander Klose
Keywords: an :: as :: bridge :: cultural :: development :: doubt :: epic :: for :: foundation :: has :: is :: know :: manifes :: means :: method :: no :: of :: or :: ordered :: organic :: our :: present :: presumption :: primary :: proffered :: provide :: quite :: so :: stage :: substantial :: such :: that :: the :: to :: was :: well :: yet :: you :: yourSource: brainyquote.com
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You can`t replace someone with Tom`s cultural background.
Stacy Williams
Source: thinkexist.com
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Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn`t resolve the question of whether it`s true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, `Well, there`s a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it`. And that re...
Andre Nel
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Karel Capek
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When I`m not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I`ve been writing quite constantly lately so I`ve been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
Alexei Makarkin
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What `jazz` means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term `jazz` has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
Amanda Parks
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We`ve got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.
Alex Laughlin
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We were delighted to find out that here was someone in the US who was exploring the same themes as us, in terms of diaspora, culture, cultural negotiations and identity.
Gurinder Chadha
