#cult

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#culture #democracy #free #free nations #heritage

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#boy #caddie #course #deal #difficult

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#big #big ideas #certain #certain way #culture

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#between #choruses #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#coming #culture #enjoy #example #had

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ↗

— Florence Scovel Shinn

#explain #faculty #intuition #points #simply

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#difficulties #into #old #old age #run

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#available #beast #closest #cultures #earth

When a piece gets difficult, make faces. ↗

— Artur Schnabel

#faces #gets #make #piece

It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#around #attention #been #before #day