Quotes About Culture

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.

My parents were unconventional for Asian parents.

We had quite an unconventional family life because my parents ran a Chinese restaurant.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

Every time I come to India - where I have grown up - if I spent 20 years in this country, I will never be able to uncover all of the hidden jewels.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

The good thing about being in San Francisco is it's a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries.

People pull from drag culture because drag artists are - it's the ultimate art form and it's the last underdog art form. I mean, even clowns have college, you know what I mean? Drag queens, you have to learn drag from another drag queen.

I was always interested in the fringes of culture and society and in expressing myself in a distinctively different way, like always rooting for the underdog, that kind of thing.

I always identified with that feeling of being an underdog. So I always was looking to connect with and meet people from other cultures, to experience people living a different life that I am.

We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.

I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

Don't underestimate the character of a Welshman.

Culture is nourished by human motivation - a limitless resource that can sometimes be underestimated.

People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books.