Quotes About Culture

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?' I said, 'No one's angry. This is just how we communicate.

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future.

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.