Culture Quotes

People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance. The soft stuff actually is the hard stuff.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to survive.

Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world.

It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days.

DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.