Quotes About Culture

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s.

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.

When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.

In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.

In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.

I have a deep love for the Chinese people.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

I feel that people in Europe are different from Americans - I think your soul is a little deeper.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

Puma is a brand deeply rooted in sporting lifestyle.

Even if you're not a fan of the Beatles you just know their songs by default. I had probably got bored of the Beatles by the time I was like 15 because I thought I had heard enough.

Unless you think hard about political questions in our culture, you are liberal by default. You have to think your way out of liberalism.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?