#cult

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#community #cultures #face #know #painting

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#cultural #i #inner #instinctive #linked

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#always #difficulties #fact #film #grow

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#believe #benefited #descendants #difficult #gene

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#culture #even #feel #great #great power

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#available #case #cultural #ideologies #matter

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. ↗

— John Paul Jones

#achieve #become #cultivated #fear #mastery

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness. ↗

— Norah Jones

#always #audience #awkwardness #been #being

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #common #community #destiny #difficult

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#both #boys and girls #culture #dignity #express