Quotes for All
And yet, over the years I’ve met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on of their birth. … Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a … Read more
I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture. Edwidge Danticat
The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and ‘transcendent authority.’ It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: ‘Who are we?’ But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The … Read more
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person…they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture. Frederick Lenz
Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer’s produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food. … Read more
People will not die. Isn’t this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They’re dying in their present form. They’re just about dead as distinct units. Don DeLillo
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow … Read more
I loved ‘Saturday Night Fever’ when I was a kid. I couldn’t believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn’t understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place. Brad Pitt
I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that’s the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people. Audrey Tautou
One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality Antonio Gramsci