Culture Quotes

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.

You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.

When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture.

Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

I think challenge for Facebook is to develop a culture that has the advertiser and the ad service be as strong a part of their culture as the user obsession is.

Cultures are not very easy to change. They're sometimes almost impossible to change.

Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies.

Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.

Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.

Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

It really never came up, but I think that in present-day America, they're - you know, and I touched on it in the initial clip - is that we are in the middle of this culture war.

Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.