Quotes About Culture

At a time when mythologicals were considered obsolete, Devon Ke Dev Mahadev' revived the genre.

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

I love Britain, but I've only been to the obvious places.

Naturally, obviously, nudity is a part of life.

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

I've been at Amazon for almost 20 years at this point, so I've obviously drunk the Kool-Aid.

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.

The BRIT awards is a really great occasion, especially for us Brits, because it shows the talent and support coming from our country.

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for special occasions.

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.