#cult

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. ↗

— Mos Def

#become #being #culture #drum #feel

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#corporate #culture #days #furious #general

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#discipline #every #freezing #fun #hard

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#difficulties #isolate #keep #life #men

That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#company #conglomerate #culture #heard #help

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#acting #actress #after #anyway #because

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#born #culture #democracy #exist #forget

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

#degree #department #difficult #entered #excitement

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

#difficulties #financial #lessons #managed #music

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come