If you challenge multiculturalism you are seen to be a racist. But it’s a political philosophy that needs to be looked at. If you don’t, you’re taking it on trust, which is intellectually dishonest.
I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn’t just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I’m attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.
Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child.
I don’t see why a book shouldn’t be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.
Once you start putting in political subtext, it does create intellectually challenging science-fiction, but with ‘Pacific Rim,’ I always thought it would be a shame if kids couldn’t go see this movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters because it seemed to have a political point of view.
Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn’t need.
Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.
In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else’s toes. But in America, British history is an eccentric, minority pursuit, and while this can be intellectually isolating, it also permits extraordinary freedom.
Agatha Christie’s writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
The United States is and will continue to be the most important country in the world, economically, militarily, intellectually. There’s nothing that four years of Trump can do to stop that. What it is no longer, during the Trump years, is the leading source for better governmental arrangements between countries.
I find that the hardest work in the world… is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. I don’t think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
I’ve always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don’t think like that because I get uncomfortable.
What’s frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don’t take chances. A big-budget movie, that script’s your bible; nobody’s going to risk going off the page. But when you’re doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn’t be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
