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Quotes About Culture

Freiheit ist kein abstrakter Wert, sondern eine institutionalisierte Praxis, die Kategorien wie den Willen, die Wahl, das Begehren und die Gefühle prägt.
~ Eva Illouz
Love is more than a cultural ideal; it is a social foundation for the self. Yet, the cultural resources that make it constitutive of the self have been depleted.
~ Eva Illouz
When a film is released, anywhere in the country, exactly in the same place people laugh, cry, get bored, what is that, but commonality.
~ Sharmila Tagore
A lot of the demos I write are all in English, so releasing music in English isn't translating to English, it's just keeping them in English.
~ Henry Lau
Girls and women are more likely to continue with their education if they feel the curriculum has some relevance to their own lives and is taught in a culturally sensitive way.
~ Tae Yoo
The relevance of beauty pageants in the Philippines is that it gives people hope.
~ Pia Wurtzbach
I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.
~ Jessica Henwick
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
~ A. R. Rahman
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
~ Tavis Smiley
Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
~ Donald Judd
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
~ Carlisle Floyd
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
~ Marisha Pessl
Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
~ Daniel Ek
We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
~ Patrick Stump
I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.
~ Tessanne Chin
It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.
~ G-Eazy
I'm still waiting for rock bands to come back, something raw and relevant.
~ Greg Kurstin
I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
~ Sam Hunt
Our communities must demand dignified housing, satisfying jobs, and proper labor conditions; our educational system must be culturally relevant, multi-lingual, and teach our histories. Our value should not be determined by legal records.
~ Patrisse Cullors
My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.
~ Justin Peck
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.
~ Trevor Paglen
The way you raise the profile of an issue is by making the issue cool and relevant in pop culture.
~ Linda Sarsour
My heart really is about making sure that the conversation of Jesus Christ is something that can be a relevant conversation regardless of where culture finds itself.
~ Kirk Franklin