Quotes About Culture

The Bible, at the end of the day, is a very human book.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Music ... is the frozen tapioca in the ice sheet of History.

Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

Myth is depoliticized speech.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions--these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

societies define themselves by how they define and manage dangers.

Citizens are not born, but made.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

There are all kinds of myths going on in the Italian culture, and the way they celebrate is through their food. It's the tradition of the table where the Italians celebrate most of their triumphs and successes.

Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation without ruination.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society.

Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.

Against all our historically-minded culture (out of compassion for our present state), the only excitement is to be found in anticipation (out of impertinence towards our future state).

Th agony of culture is therefore doomed to eternal continuation; by the same token, man, since endowed with the capacity of culture, is doomed to explore, to be dissatisfied with his world, to destroy and to create.

The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

I've never seen a reality show. I don't watch television.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.