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I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.
In the New York metropolitan area, you can find Jews from just about every Jewish cultural community in the world.
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.
When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Anytime you can be a part of something that hopefully tries to make a cultural contribution, I love the idea of that.
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.
I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.
There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.
I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
I used to represent Mount Carmel College in cultural activities, and a friend in the team told me to try my hand at acting.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.