Quotes About Culture

But I'm not running away. I'm running toward... toward adventure, toward discovery, toward diversity. And while I was in Mexico I discovered something intruiging: Once I leave the U.S., I am not bound by the rules of my culture. And when I am a foreigner in another country, I am exempt from the local rules. This extraordinary situation means that there are no rules in my life. I am free to live by the standards and ideals and rules I create for myself.

references to a few clear and simple strategic priorities, to the importance of building culture and developing talent, and to leveraging a few core capabilities.

Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were categorical imperatives, she abandoned religion and embraced atheism. She devoted herself to Science, getting to the point of renouncing marriage for scientific research. ...Unlike other people, Rita Levi Montalcini was a complete human being.

There was also one Anthony, whose mama could spell, and one Antnee, whose mama couldn't. It

and that's what civilization is. It's not mobile phones, computers, skyscrapers, and McDonalds; It's having enough security in your own faith and culture to allow people the sanctity of theirs . . .

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times.

The more you travel, the more well-off you'll be, I think.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

If you're alive, you bleed more. The Aztecs wanted them to bleed a lot. They wanted waterfalls of the stuff, gushing down the sides of -- - Dad

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap.

But being born on the same planet as the Beatles is one of the ten best things that's ever happened to me.

But "ma'am" doesn't translate in the North, where it just startles and offends.

A whole generation of southern girls, raised on the promise of Michael Stipe.

But right now, karaoke is one of the places where we go to form our own culture club, which is one of the millions of things a relationship is—building a shared language out of the things that fire up your blood. Couples need as many of those languages as they can get.

My favorite prototypical Beatlemaniac appears in the great documentary The Compleat Beatles, in a TV news clip.

More recent critics of the folk revival have suggested that the entire body of work considered 'British folk', from the Victorian age onwards, has been nothing more than carefully staged illusion, the product of a wholesale middle-class appropriation of working people's culture.

William the Conqueror was an enthusiastic builder of churches and monasteries, but even by the time he and his invading armies arrived from Normandy in 1066, Britons' national psyche – their customs, culture and language – had already been shaped by almost 900 years of wrestling for possession between competing religious doctrines, heathen, pagan and Christian.

However, it may come as a surprise to know that in the Hebrew language the word for "service" is the same word used for "worship.

From a very early age I remember a phrase being quietly passed around among our relatives at Six Nations: "Be proud you are an Indian, but be careful who you tell.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

We have become a society of fakes, so intent copying the famous that we cannot figure out who we are.