Quotes About Culture

Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.

I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling things out and turning chords into melodies instead of just letting them be these hanging blocks of color.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the years, attracted bands such as Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, and Janet Jackson. It also attracted Culture Club, who were ground-breaking.

The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Our economic competitiveness turns on a thriving, inclusive culture grounded in racial and economic justice.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it's a good big, stupid American movie.

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

It turns out, from what I hear, that roasted fruit bats are delicious.

Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.

I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?

I appreciate how central religion is in the lives other people, but it has never resonated with me. I imagine this is how lots of people feel about things I love, like rap music or, it turns out, sports.

Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester.

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.