Quotes About Culture

Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

Christians have no idea how to deal with art.

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

There is no pressure from my family to get married.

One thing about Indonesians is that a lot of them, even if they don't understand English, have absolutely no problem memorizing English songs. Even my dad.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

I have no problem with television as a genre.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I would have no problem with living in China. I like discovering new places and cultures, and I would not go alone - my family would go with me.

You can be yourself in London. If you are a bit different in the way you dress or look it is no problem.

Visiting other places changes your perspective. It helps you understand that no matter where you are, or what country you're in, people are pretty much the same everywhere.

To me, that's what traveling should be about. Meeting people, learning to not only appreciate a different culture, but really enjoy it like a local, follow whatever impulse strikes you. My advice would be to make a list of laces on some index cards shuffle them, and pick any five a random. Then just go and see what happens. If you have the right mind-set, it doesn't matter where you end up or how much money you have brought. It'll be something you'll remember forever.

Okavango Delta in Botswana to shots of the aurora borealis in Lapland. There were photographs taken as she'd hiked the Inca Trail, others from the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, still more among the ruins of Timbuktu. Twelve years ago, she'd learned to scuba dive and had spent ten days documenting marine life in Raja Ampat; four years ago, she'd hiked to the famous Paro Taktsang, or Tiger's Nest

The faster you strip cultures down, the more you find contrariness and disputation, rather than a solid core, until eventually you reach the individual, a mammal shaped by evolution, material needs, cognitive biases and historical circumstances no doubt, but still a creature with a better right to state his opinions than kings and clerics have to silence them.

Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity.

What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?- Rob

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

The fuck?" he said. "The fuck?" said Jess. "The fuck what?" "It's an American abbreviation," said Martin. " «The fuck?» means «What the fuck?» In America, they're so busy that they don't have time to say the «what».