Respecting other people's cultures is well and good but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam what they do to women. It's indefensible.
The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
The teacher of history's work should be ideally not simply a description of past cultures but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
Science for hundreds of years has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
If I wasn't doing this I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
I've got tremendous respect for different cultures for the food and everything.
I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
Two thousand years ago we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
There is so much that is positive wonderful even about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
I like to see myself as a bridge builder that is me building bridges between people between races between cultures between politics trying to find common ground.
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies but it's clear that in America poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
I plead for conservation of human culture which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories and I like the abrasive clang the contrasting of sounds and cultures.
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races parties classes religions cultures regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
My whole life I had been taught to read and study to seek understanding in knowledge of history of cultures.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge dead facts. Libraries on the other hand are full of them.
I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life so I just make films as I see the world and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting but at the same time a little sad.