Quotes About Culture

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

My life is really so much based in England.

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.

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.

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.

The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live there's a different energy about living in the city.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.

There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

If someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future

It's not about being educated, it's about being civilised.

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.