Quotes About Culture

We love pop and the U.K. specifically seems to embrace pop and it's so cool.

I always loved 'The Critic' and how specifically 'New York' it was.

Growing up, the question of faith and the question of God, specifically with Christianity, has been something that's informed me quite a lot, but it's also very loaded. The way that it's often expressed in America is very different from the way that I view things.

People are honest, that's the culture. East Coast, but specifically Boston. People are just good people.

Hawaii is a melting pot of people and my school specifically has a lot of diversity that personally inspires me in everything I do.

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them - an admittedly minor slice - are shaded with the elements of high art.

I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

The feature space is a spectacle space. It's about getting people out of their houses to go to theater when we all have a lot of things in our home now that occupy our attention.

Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.

I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.

I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have A Dream' speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.