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So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. -- Neville Marriner
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different. -- Kate Millett
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures. -- Jet Li
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When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists -- Hermann Hesse
The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore. -- Kris Kidd
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. -- Salman Rushdie
It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same. -- Sarah Turnbull
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. -- Hermann Hesse
If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds. -- Randy Pausch
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting. -- Sandra Cisneros
I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right. -- C.P. Snow
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me. -- Sheena Iyengar
For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy. -- Tarkan
Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures. -- Shelley E. Taylor
What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures. -- Michael Emerson
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? -- Dan Brown
I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win. -- John Pilger
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. -- Hu Shih
For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms. -- Ellen Willis
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together. -- Adam Gopnik
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? -- Ernest Gaines
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. -- Chuck D
I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li. -- Ang Lee
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. -- John Berger
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me. -- Gene Luen Yang
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. -- Dan Savage
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. -- Robert Duvall
I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily. -- Dwayne Johnson
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess. -- Martha Beck
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends. -- Ang Lee
I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin. -- Prince Royce
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference. -- Martin Jacques
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture -- Arthur Koestler
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. -- Michael Caine

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