Quotes About Culture

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it. I loved the culture and the food, and the coffee was amazing. The place that we were was stunning, and it really was quite an amazing experience to film out there.

I coped OK with eating guinea pig, while staying at the stunning Mashpi Lodge, up in the cloud forest of Ecuador - but that's because mine was all cut up and served nicely.

David Harrington asked me to write a piece for Kronos Quartet for a performance in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. I live just two blocks from the park and spend many mornings running around it. The park for me symbolizes much of what I love about New York, especially the stunning diversity of Brooklyn with its myriad cultures and communities.

Ecuador is stunning.

If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth by dissing them.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

There are lots of things to like about being Eastern Orthodox - incense, liturgies, all the baklava you can eat - but you know what I like best? None of that stupid 'women's ministry' stuff.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

It's just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.