Quotes About Culture

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.'

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?

Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

I've grown up watching cinema from around the world, and there are films that have scenes that are far steamier than what we are required to do on screen.

For anything or anyone to grow, a conducive atmosphere is required.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

There are many different regions around the world, and each region has its own cultural acceptance and legal restrictions as well as different age ratings. There are always things that we're required to do in each different region, which may go counter to the idea that players around the world want the freedom to play whatever they want.

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.

American Sign Language requires a lot of facial and body expression.

When I was growing up, like from 2003 to 2004, I didn't even go outside, I just watched '106 and Park' everyday. Reruns of it.

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.

If there's somewhere that in no way resembles Eastern Europe, it's Australia.