Quotes About Culture

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true.

It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.

We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.

Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time under consideration.

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

It gets bigger every time you go over. In China, there was Yao Ming stuff everywhere. I'm just fortunate to have a good-looking face to where they recognize me.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.