Quotes About Culture

industry without art is brutality".

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

being large and rich helps a country win matches, but having a long soccer history helps a lot more.

One may say without exaggeration that Les Misérables triggered War and Peace.[23] Giants breed giants.

Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

think the real Golden Age of travel is actually now, when it is cheaper and safer than ever. It's also a guaranteed way of tingling your senses, enhancing your life and gifting you a huge stock of memories, encounters and experiences.

A shared seat, shared music; and then the chap next to him nodding his head to Bruce Springsteen. Michael never let anyone's situation define them. He started to break down barriers and helped a generation of viewers dismiss the stereotypes that had plagued our view of other cultures.

He handed her a tissue, but she didn't know what a tissue was, so she put it in her mouth and tried to eat it.

The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.

If you want to know the people around you," Stalin said, "find out what they read.

I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

The language should be accorded just the same dignity and respect as those other standards that science was then also defining.

Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays—they are all in this one book.

The chances of anybody today being a 'pure' example of any specific medieval 'race' must be close to zero, quite aside from the category being patently meaningless.

The city is the teacher of the man.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers).

I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.

There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes.