Quotes About Culture

If you think about the map of Europe with Italy and Germany and Spain and all the different people and cultures, well, Australia is like that. And the white people from England, they are like a lot of noisy, angry visitors on a holiday that never really ends,' Mary giggles to herself

You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.

I cabled Mr. Eisman and I told him we could not learn anything in London because we knew to much, so if we went to Paris at least we could learn French, if we made up our mind to it.

Paris is devine

Books hold our culture, our past, other worlds, the antidote for sadness.

Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing.

When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital.

Why did she feel the need to sneer? Because people who talked about books or pictures or films made her feel ignorant and out of her depth.

places that sold pixie-shittery to the tourists.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Sitting on the back of my motorbike going from west to east through Mongolia was one of the most inspiring and awesome experiences I've ever had. There was so little influence of the western world.

Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond that sometimes.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I'm a mirror glass for the Muslims as well as the Western world, which looks at me in a slightly different way, but they are looking in the same mirror.

To us in Asia, rice is such a staple, we take it for granted. I didn't even think about how I made it until I came to the Western world.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

A reasonably new theme in the western world, Indian culture has known how to heal the body through food for thousands of years.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.