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Quotes About Culture

There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.
~ Jose Garces
My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.
~ Lauren Greenfield
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
~ Jodie Foster
There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
~ Jacques Barzun
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
~ Sonny Rollins
Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
~ Jack Kent Cooke
My cultural roots are something illusive.
~ Ang Lee
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.
~ Sean M. Carroll
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
~ Annette Bening
For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.
~ Stella Young
I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.
~ Tory Lanez
When it comes to our cultural values, I would love to hold on to the past because Nokia had some of the best spirit ever. Having grown up in the company, I loved it for the value and culture, which matched my own.
~ Rajeev Suri
It's a cultural question. Will people want to share cars?
~ Karl Iagnemma
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
~ Alvar Aalto
Nothing kills your company's culture like layoffs.
~ Herb Kelleher
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
~ Adam Grant
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
~ Jacques Derrida
A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
~ Zinedine Zidane
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
~ C. J. Cherryh
Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.
~ Richard Attenborough
I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.
~ Judit Polgar
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
~ Charles Saatchi