Quotes About Culture

I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how great I was.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.

I love players but I'm afraid it has become a selfish culture.

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then.

I want to keep the British side of my sense of humor.

It's better to live a world where you can hear different languages and sensibilities.

I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

If the Chinese are sensitive about anything, it's not having their people die.

I know that India is very sensitive to nudity.

India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.

Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

I may be working in different languages, but the sentiments of audiences remain the same.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.