Quotes About Culture

I went to private school, but I've got family from North Carolina.

Oh, talking about private school, man, I had cornrows, and when I picked 'em out, certain people that didn't look like me always wanted to touch 'em. One time, I just said, 'Yo, hell no.'

Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures.

Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

My film-making is the privilege of French cinema. I would have to do things totally differently elsewhere. But I think I could learn from that and have fun being part of a bigger collective.

I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.

It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.

Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.

When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

Art is the job of the privileged.

I feel privileged to have grown up in Germany so it was a heavy blow for me to be portrayed as somebody who isn't integrated and who doesn't live his life according to German values.

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.