Quotes About Culture

My whole thing with EDM is, if you have integrity and yet you regress in how you've been as an artist, there's something not quite right there. If you're just here to get paid, I find that very culturally indifferent.

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

I don't think German films have to be heavy or intellectual the way they sometimes used to be.

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

I don't come from an intellectual family.

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It's intelligent pop. There's still something different and complex about it.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

Tamilians, I believe, are the most intelligent people.

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.