Quotes About Culture

Oakland kids are always the best.

I liked bands like Oasis and The Prodigy.

In 1995, I was 27, and I completely got caught up in Blur and Oasis and the fashion of the time.

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

I don't necessarily want to be defined as an action star. I love movies, and my movie culture, luckily because of my parents and my family, is quite obscure and independent.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

A city's soul is best observed during the morning, what is the culture of the city, how are the people, you also get to know whether the city is cosmopolitan or religious.

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.