Quotes About Culture

We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.

Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.

I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this or that.

If something is really outrageous, it doesn't matter if it is one culture, or another, it's outrageous.

The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

Outside of my own home, England is my second home.

I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I'm seen as an American.

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

It's not easy for an outsider to understand this industry.

I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business... to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you're an outsider in the Japanese business world. It's difficult. But that's life.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

My identity, I felt, was so distinct. I felt very much like an outsider. My family didn't have the same rituals that everyone else seemed to have.

My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world.

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India.