Quotes About Culture

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

I am even okay doing a pole dance, but not smooching scenes.

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.

Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East.

As a black man who doesn't know another black man who hasn't had strange run-ins with police officers, it's impossible for us not to think about whether that could have been us - based on our country, based on our culture, based on our past experiences.

Believe me, you don't want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

My mother's Polish; my dad was Irish.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

I'm just as happy to be Polish as I am to be German.

Even though I moved to Florida, I'm still Polish.

Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.

Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.