Quotes About Culture

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

I was reared on American TV and films. There was a huge sense of occasion about going to the cinema in Moy in the late 1950s and early '60s, and I absolutely loved those Hollywood sword-and-sandal movies like Ben-Hur and the dime-a-dozen cowboy-and-Indian films, as we then referred to them.

I said that in Beverly Hills, a woman going out to a party without makeup on is shocking. I was referring to women in Beverly Hills in general.

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

There are so many shows that are 'white,' and we wanted to talk about how two really delusional, cliche white girls handle racial issues.

When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

Look around, Punjab is full of potential, talent, handsome faces.

A lot of people think I hang around Cambridge as this Hogwarts-obsessed Anglophile looking for anyone with a British accent.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.

The electronic music world is such a tight-knit community. We're all hanging out at different festivals and such.

I love parasailing, taking strolls, indulging in water sports, hanging out in touristy places - especially night markets.

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

Everybody knows what's going on. Even if they don't watch it they know what's happening.