Quotes About Culture

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.

When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.

We need to have a grown-up conversation about what kind of system do we need, both politically and legally and culturally and economically, that will stop this ridiculous, outrageous harming that we're doing to ourselves and the planet.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

I think we go overboard with a lot of those politically correct no-no's.

Everything is politically correct nowadays.

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.

I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.

There's no getting around it - I am a politically incorrect, racially insensitive, culturally controversial comic, but at least I'm self-aware.

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

A politician's speech can't do what a movie or a cultural event like a song or piece of music can.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.