#culture

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#being #constructed #creator #culture #differences

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#answered #away #been #come #cultures

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #combination #cultures #eventually #many

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#culture #each #education #every #his

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas. ↗

— Semen Frank

#ideas #russian #vekhi #art

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#culture #diminish #feel #few #films

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#agriculture #amount #because #certain #could

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#classic #comedies #culture #entertain #entertainment

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#aaron spelling #always #believed #business #career

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#cultures #different #different cultures #had #i