Quotes About Culture

We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

I'm such a spiritual person and in Sweden it's a bit taboo to be too open with your spirituality; they always think it's a bit weird.

The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.

The fact that we are playing Latinos does not mean that you have to be shouting 'fiesta,' 'taco,' or talking in the same way most Latin characters do in American television.

Nothing grounds you like a real authentic Mexican taco.

Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

Football in England is much more direct that in Spain - not just in terms of tactics or style but in the overall approach.

People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country.

I try to look at the films as I make them from a distance, in a way. I think of them as kind of pop culture artefacts. I'll often make posters and tag lines as I'm working on them, and not just conceive of them as a story I'm going to tell, but as a whole, a piece - a whole object that exists in the pop culture realm.

For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the truth is, that simply isn't the case.