Quotes About Culture

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

As I travel around the world, I'm realizing that every place I go influences me in some kind of way.

Japanese culture? I kind of love everything about it. I love the food. Everyone's really nice. There's just a lot about Japan that's really cool.

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.

America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of dreaming.

Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.

Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.

Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

I can think of many reasonable excuses for needing a cocktail, but Cinco De Mayo is always a no-brainer.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand.

After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

I've always loved American stand-up. Richard Pryor is one of the main reasons I got into stand-up. After Pryor, I made my way through the other great American comics, then finally got into the British ones over here.

Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.

My creativity for making women feel beautiful is one of the reasons I love being Latina. Just making people feel more attractive was always a goal of mine; the creativity - I think it has a lot to do with my culture as well.

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That's the rhetorical position we occupy.

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.

The Internet, to me, is about rebel culture, and I've always loved it. When I think of rebel culture, I think of rock-and-roll or hip-hop, and for a long time now, it's been the Internet.

Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.