Quotes About Culture

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.

New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the time - in the street, on the train - you become a people person. People are very open to hearing a lot of different perspectives, and they aren't as sensitive.

Sports has given me the opportunity to travel around the world and see new countries and meet so many different people. I've gained new perspectives.

Travel opens eyes and perspectives.

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.

I'm comfortable, culturally I'm American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective do other people look at me and think that I'm American?

Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I'm not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape, and it was a failure.

Race impacts 90 percent of our society - and I'm probably undershooting that figure. I find this fascinating and like to address it when pertinent.

The name of Peru was not known to the natives.

I've been to Mongolia, Peru, Argentina, India.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.