quotes about Japanese Culture

“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”

“God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.”

“...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.”

“In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.”

“There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.”

“It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.”

“The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.”

Source : "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

“My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.”

“A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.”

“The world is full of dumb paperwork.”