Quotes about "Travel & Adventure"

K-pop itself is not just a music genre, but a whole cultural phenomenon. ”

From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise. ”

When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this. ”

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written. ”

The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is an exploration of that theme... I reread it every year... That's not as surprising as it sounds, because it's a rip-roaring book. ”

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it. ”

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be. ”

As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can rise above it while others can't. ”

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. ”

As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak to general cultural statements. ”