#culture

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #because #becomes #beginning #bits

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #between #cultures #evident #generally

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#bear #both #bring #course #cultures

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. ↗

— Herbert Read

#cellular #civilization #course #culture #differentiated

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#bring #code #culture #during #ii

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#baseball #basketball #culture #football #grow

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines. ↗

— Rihanna

#barbados #choreographer #culture #dancing #growing

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burn #culture #destroy #get #just