#cult

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#best #challenging #dark #difficult #directors

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#altered #cultures #enter #hypothesis #knowledge

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#aspects #culture #good #our #ourselves

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #country #culture #cut #cutting

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. ↗

— George MacDonald

#difficulty #make #well #where

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#because #been #culture #different #different kind

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#basic #continuing #culture #find #get

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#diabetes #eat #get #know #many

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#difficulties #great #where #willingness

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#arts #council #development #difficulty #film