Quotes About Culture

One of the main foundations of our country is supposed to be that we value individuality, and unfortunately, that seems to be getting lost.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

We have over 25 deaf individuals in my family.

The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society.

My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.

I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.

When I came to England, everybody was indoors all the time, and nobody said hello to each other. That was weird.

It may seem that I am doing films in different languages, which of course I am, but more importantly, I am performing different characters and every character has so much to teach. It makes me happy that I am associated with so many film industries.

We have four good film industries in the south and language for us is no barrier.

I just don't like how the beauty industry became so much about money and so much drama-driven.

Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

I hope people online understand that the celebrity culture we've created is not really real. So when they're speaking to and about me, I'm a person, so I'm going to make mistakes. It's inevitable because I'm human.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.

Once you become a curator, you will inevitably end up on TV, if only to talk about your latest exhibition.