Quotes About Culture

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism.

I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.

I think I have an inbuilt British skepticism.

I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I'm on holiday, if I have time.

I've always wanted to do a sketch show. And they've sort of gone out of fashion for a bit, or they've just stopped doing them for whatever reason.

There have been times where I have said, even in a sketch that I'm not in, 'I don't think you should be making that joke at the expense of Asian people.'

By the time I got to uni sketch comedy was much more fashionable than stand-up.

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

Your understanding of culture can be very skewed sometimes, depending on what you're taking in!

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

I always tell young journalists to leverage what you have. If you have a particular language skill or access to a particular place or culture in a way that others don't, that's your advantage.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.

A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company.

My skin - very Mexican, very Oaxaquenan, and very human, from the color of my land and the diversity of its colors.

You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.