Quotes About Culture

President Trump, in a lot of ways - not just on policy but in terms of style - is everything that Hawaii is not.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

There are many families that want to raise kids on one income, or one income and some part-time work, and instead find themselves pressured, financially and culturally, to keep up with the dual-earning Smith-Joneses next door.

The perpetuation of family and cultural pressures to conform to prescribed masculine behaviors is what creates social isolation and distress in many young gay and trans people of color.

Television wasn't prestigious.

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

It's an honor to join the board of directors of a prestigious and successful company like UTA and one so committed to its culture.

The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.