Quotes About Cultural

Culturally, as women, we're raised to be very concerned with others' approval in a way that men aren't, but an inevitable part of directing and being visionary is that you have to be a boss, and as such, not everyone is going to like you all the time or agree with your choices.

While women feel cultural pressure to keep up their physical appearance, men feel that pressure to keep up their emotional appearance

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

True Québécois walked in the middle of the road.

Like the rest of the Québécois? Like Beauvoir himself? Did they curse the Church? Câlice! Tabernac! Hostie! The Québécois had turned religious words into dirty words.

I've said it once and I will say it again, why can't everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can't other nations?

There can be no doubt that this resistance to killing one's fellow man is there and that it exists as a result of a powerful combination of instinctive, rational, environmental, hereditary, cultural, and social factors. It is there, it is strong, and it gives us cause to believe that there just may be hope for mankind after all.

There is something else about memory, something Thomas hadn't brought up. It's not a video recording. It's subjective. It's a culturally relevant account of what happened. It doesn't matter if it's accurate; it matters if it's important in some way to you. If it teaches you something you need to learn.

You learn how they live their lives, and you speak their language well enough to blend in with them. But how many white people you know who go out of their way to see Tyler Perry movies so they can learn how to act around Black people?

love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond

For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.

I don't drink coffee," she said, taking a sip from her tea. "Coffee is for Americans and Protestants. Irish people should drink tea. That's how we were brought up after all. Give me a nice cup of Lyons and I'm content." "I don't mind the occasional cup of Barry's myself." "No, that's from Cork.

What's wrong with you people? he asked, looking at me as if I was clinically insane. What's wrong with Ireland? Are you all just fucking nuts over there, is that it? Don't you want each other to be happy? No, I said, finding my country a difficult one to explain. No, I don't think we do.

Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If a person acts like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We promote pretense and lying as a cultural way of life. Living this way causes an inner split. It teaches us to hide and cover up our toxic shame. This sends us deeper into isolation and loneliness.

Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If people act like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We promote pretense and lying as a cultural way of life. Living this way causes an inner split. It teaches us to hide and cover up our toxic shame. This sends us deeper into isolation and loneliness.

Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.