Quotes About Culture

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

but English nachos are very bad. Do not eat English nachos. I swear to God I've seen them put baked beans on them. Fish and chips, however, are very good. That's not a stereotype. That's fact. And that's what we are getting.

What were the seventies even about? Was it all smoking and listening to this kind of stuff and riding around in huge cars without wearing seat belts? This was the song everyone liked?

The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form a nation, they become unbearable.

All immigration is based on misapprehension.

I'm Australian; I know how to use a shotgun!

Yet often you talk as though you had read rather much. Your way of speech has what is called 'the literary flavour'.

But don't worry. America can turn out millions just like me, and Oxford can have as many of them as she can hold. On the other hand, how many of YOU can be turned out, as per sample, in England?

The Frenchwoman threw up her hands and apostrophised heaven. To this day she believes that all the bonnes of Oxford are mad, but mad, and of a madness.

But in the military sphere, just as in science, economics, art, or culture, change is not evenly distributed across space and time. Sometimes innovations cluster together to produce a major change in the way people live—or, in the case of the military, the way they die.

Because Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Different places, different ages, completely different cultures, and yet they came up with similar weapons and tactics. Is there something about how we're wired, something universally human?

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.