Quotes About Culture

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

I'm always very proud of Moroccan artistes doing well and achieving international recognition.

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

There's so many films from around the world, I emphasize, that are so beautifully photographed, but they don't get the recognition.

Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.

Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.

I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.

All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.

My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn't really matter to me if they are Left or Right.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

I don't get recognized in England. Not at all. Every so often, I get recognized in other countries.

If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

It's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more.

When I first came here, Italian food wasn't anything I recognized. I didn't know what Italian American food was; we never ate it at home. It was the food of immigrants who came here and made use of the ingredients they had.