#cult

The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change. ↗

— Taufik Hidayat

#badminton #change #culture #find #harder

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#difficult #going #had #high #high price

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#city #culture #food #go #iowa

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#force #most #most powerful #powerful #world

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#clean #difficult #films #how #i

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#chinese #cultural #directed #expansion #foreign

Art is difficult. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#difficult

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. ↗

— David Hockney

#artists #bit #challenge #difficult #fact

Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of his own nation may have a rough resemblance to the reality. But his vision of the world is probably smaller than the world…hence he is never so inadequate as when he is universal; he is never so limited as when he generalizes. This is the fallacy in the many modern attempts at a creedless creed, at something variously described as...undenominational religion or a world faith to embrace all the faiths in the world...When a philosophy embraces everything it generally squeezes everything, and squeezes it out of shape; when it digests it necessarily assimilates. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#multiculturalism #nonsectarianism #open-mindedness #faith

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#culture #globalization #gotten #kind #me