#culture

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know. ↗

— Yao Ming

#chinese #chinese culture #culture #ecosystem #great

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. ↗

— Rick Moody

#cultures #had #ice #life #movie

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely. ↗

— Joe Moore

#condone #creatures #culture #defenseless #does

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#age #ages #anything #anyway #cares

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#culture #doing #fits #i #i think

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#culture #environment #important #less #long

The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#culture #house #white #white house

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#ashamed #challenge #change #create #culture

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran