Quotes About Culture

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

Straight people love to steal from drag queens. It happens all the time.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.

What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.

I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

French people are strange about America, I think.

And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.