#cult

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bee #bee gees #been #black #black music

When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#city #corners #different #difficult #difficult time

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#champion #difficult #difficult times #dreamed #good

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

#angle #approached #away #difficulty #next

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#chaos #culture #decent #decent people #freaks

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#come #contemporary #creative #culture #generating

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#cultures #destiny #fault #find #i

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ↗

— George Gilder

#culture #dispensable #family #feels #his