Quotes About Culture

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.

Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can't trust the Americans.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.