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"We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion."
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Personal Development
"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."
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Personal Development
"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."
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Personal Development
"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."
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Personal Development
"Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a "hand hug. This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved."
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Personal Development
"Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles."
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Personal Development
"We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning."
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Personal Development
"Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom."
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Personal Development
"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."
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Personal Development
"The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else."
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"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."
Familiarity
"I prefer to write music for family films. I like people."
Family
"Today it's not culture; it's box office."
Culture
"Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt."
Music
"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."
Experience
"Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero."
Being
"The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s."
Society
"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."
Music
"Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions."
Music
"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
Music
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