Quotes About Culture

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

The thing is, what most people don't understand is that there are so many of us growing up in Europe who are not free to be ourselves. We're not allowed to be who we are. We are not free to marry or to be in relationships with people that we choose. We can't even pick our own career. This is the norm in the Muslim heartlands of Europe.

For us in Asia, fermented, bubbly, creamy things are just the norm.

In Tamil, three-hour films are normal.

I was a normal American nerd.

I know that in Senegal, the fans and the media are demanding, and that is normal.

Although homosexuality has been normalised, it is not normal.

We go to the banya, the Russian spa. And you go into the sauna, which is really hot, much hotter than a normal sauna, and then they beat you with branches.

My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.

When you live in England you can lead a normal life.

I'm always saying normal things, and people usually understand me, but they're like, 'Where are you from?!'

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.

Normally for me, it's not interesting. When do you see in the jungle, female fighters fighting each other? I mean it's not human nature.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

Normally, people would spend thousands to watch a trashy film in a multiplex, but not shell out a few bucks to watch a play. But in bigger cities, we are more likely to find a bigger section of people who would want to watch a play.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

As all of us know, health is deeply intertwined with culture: what we eat, how active we are, how much we sleep. These are rooted in cultural norms.

The problem is, authentic hip-hop culture is street culture. And so you've got middle-class blacks really emulating the norms of the South Bronx, which is not really in their best interests.

New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent.

My hometown, Backa Topola, was in the north of the country near the Hungarian border. It is a nice part of Serbia, and I am very happy I grew up there.