Quotes About Culture

I've literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records was an obvious choice. I wanted to be the person to bring this seasoned band to a new culture and audience. I'm really proud of them.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

I experienced many moments when we were able to overcome language barriers. When they like something during our shows, American audiences would tend to show our fox signs or move their bodies.

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

As someone who spent a lot of years living in Jerusalem, one of the great perks is that when you come back, and you get into these Israel arguments in your American-Jewish clan, you can really just silence them by saying, 'I lived there.' So we used it like a bludgeon.

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film I did was silent. What I'm trying to say is that, yes, I'm Italian, and yes, I make films with Italian money, but personally, I've always been invested in the broader world of film-making.

Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.

Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.

A good girl in Afghanistan should be silent, should not talk about her future, should listen to your family, be like a doll so that everyone can play with her.

We must overcome our cultural barriers that giving should be a private and silent activity.

I don't force reinvention. I play with silhouette and color, since Indian as well as Caribbean women have a penchant for these.

In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.

I never imagined I would wear a silk sari as I practice Ahimsa.

'The Sound of Silk' will serve as a lens for larger questions about cultural identity in a global society and the potential for individuals to act as catalysts for change.

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.

When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.