Quotes About Culture

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

Like nearly every other electoral subgroup in U.S. polling, 'Asian' is a label that masks the diversity among its peoples-perhaps even more than 'Hispanic' belies the significant variances between the cultures designated as such.

There is a lot of musical pollution in the film industry.

Except for the pollution, I love everything about Delhi.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.

The cornerstone of every Persian meal is rice, or polo.

In New York, I was into Kool G Rap and Polo, KRS-One, that whole big 80s boom.

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!

I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.

In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.

'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.

You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

There hasn't been that many indigenous Australians who have made it in the pop industry.