Quotes About Culture

Shows like 'Empire,' 'Black-ish,' 'Scandal,' and 'How to Get Away With Murder' are expanding viewers' perspectives on what people of color can be like. They're showing more range. They're showing more diversity within diversity.

In all my years in 'Countdown's' Dictionary Corner, the subject most guaranteed to rankle with our viewers is the presence of Americanisms in the dictionary.

As Major League Baseball struggles to overcome its staid image and lure younger fans - according to Nielsen, most of the sport's TV viewers are over 50 - the simple bat flip has come to symbolize the culture war being waged within its ranks.

It makes me so happy to know that we have so many viewers in India.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

Mythologicals and historicals have always found takers in India. The audience identifies with them and they make for good family viewing.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.

For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape people's lives and viewing the present in the context of history.

The viewing centre was a place you go to watch football in Nigeria but you have to pay to watch football at a viewing centre, so if you don't have the means or the money to pay, you can't watch.

I love 'Eurovision!' It's the best thing in the world, and it should be mandatory viewing.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.

There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.

The French have a very deep knowledge of Islam in many areas, and we can exchange views.

It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.