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Quotes About Culture

I have visited many countries and I see it as very normal that when people clash (bump in to each other), it is normal that these people apologize, ... Now, we see that these planes come in to our country and they don't want to ask for forgiveness. Is that normal?
~ Jiang Zemin
Being fake is the new trend now, so I guess everyone is in style.
~ Unknown
Happy final birthday according to North Korea.
~ Unknown
When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone
~ Unknown
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
~ Margaret Mead
I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
~ Peta Wilson
I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
~ Mike Myers
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
~ Arthur Miller
Its funny how when you call a girl a bi... she get so pissed, but once you add a bad in front of it, it becomes a compliment.
~ Unknown
Deadbeat dads are all over the place, it's almost kind of common... but when a mother leaves her child, people think "how could a woman do that???"
~ Unknown
We can kiss and hug our girl friends compared to guys that can't.
~ Unknown
It's a very American thing to hide away from death.
~ David Fincher
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.
~ Dervla Murphy
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
~ Edwin Newman
how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.
~ Francine du Plessix Gray
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.
~ Gore Vidal
We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.
~ Victoria Beckham
Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.
~ Unknown
An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.
~ Henning Mankell
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.
~ John Lamb Lash
Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.
~ Chris Campanioni, Tourist Trap
This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.
~ Unknown