Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines.
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
Socially, I think I'm quite comfortable; I enjoy chatting to people... but I do have my quirks.
I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.
The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.
Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and they can raise children in a way that's best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.
A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
Electricity can transform people's lives, not just economically but also socially.
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.
I am pretty geeky, yes. I like odd sub-culture activities, I am often socially inept, I wore glasses in high school. But I am a modern geek.
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.
Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.
I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.
I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.