Quotes About Culture

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion differently.

I'm very well-recognized in Japan, on a par with a rock star.

I never thought that I would share a hit parade with the Beatles.

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

Despite the fact that human beings think that they have escaped the evolutionary paradigm, they've done nothing of the kind, and so we should expect the belief systems that people hold to mirror the evolutionary interests that people have.

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery, what am I going to see the most of? I'm not going to see a whole lot of black figures in pictures.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.

When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

We have been teaching 'Paradise Lost' and 'Julius Caesar' to the students but we are not teaching them 'Kalidas' or Indian drama and epics.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.

I came from Hyderabad and didn't know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.

In India, tradition is paramount. Husband-wife relationship is okay. They do not allow girls to go out.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

Bolshevism was a mind-set, an idiosyncratic culture with an intolerant paranoid wordview obsessed with abstruse Marxist ideology.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.

I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting.