Quotes About Culture

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

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.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

While the big government culture-identity program that I've called the Next Great Nation movement of 1967–1976 was abandoned, it doesn't mean that it failed completely.

I'm British by heritage, American by God's grace, and Canadian by divine intervention.

Not everybody has to be a striver. Canada does a very good job of trying to raise the standard of living of all its citizens. I think this is admirable and appropriate. However, those poor, tortured Canadian souls who are driven to innovate and make things, don't just have to endure the typical loneliness of genius, they also must overcome the inertia of a culture that continually asks strivers, 'Who do you think you are?

Skiing was for Canadians. Tobogganing was for us immigrants.

los demás directivos y jefes hacia la pauta de comportamiento deseada. Los altos directivos no pueden delegar el tipo de cambio cultural del que estamos hablando.

The neighborhood-towns were part of larger ethnic states. To the north of the Loop was Germany. To the northwest was Poland. To the west were Italy and Israel. To the southwest were Bohemia and Lithuania. And to the south was ireland... you could always tell, even with your eyes closed, which state you were in by the odors of the food stores and the open kitchen windows, the sound of the foreign or familiar language, and by whether a stranger hit you in the head with a rock.

designing the right collaboration culture is an anthropological rather than technological problem.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

The English and German words are almost identical: "tact" and "takt." The cultural definitions, however, are about as similar as if they were "goose down" and "blitzkrieg.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

Pornography is the industrialisation of erotism.

He grew up and later lived with an insatiable wanderlust. He always carried a rug with him and used to say, "My home is where my rug is"; he spent the better part of his life among tribes so wild that, after shaking hands, he always had to count his fingers. Only illness provided some sort of island of peace in his life. As soon as he fell ill, he would forget every other language save his own.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Bagel: a doughnut dipped in cement, a Jewish brass-knuckle.

I like the West. That's where men are men and women are women, and it's hard to beat a combination like that.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time.