Quotes About Culture

I have a show called 'First Gen' that David Oyelowo is executive producing.

In the mid- to late '70s, there was no one better than ABBA at writing and producing great pop.

I identify myself with the male gaze, I grew up with the male gaze, I've been excited by the male gaze. I'm a product of that culture.

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

The first beauty product most Dutchies get is Max Factor mascara. But a lot of people here still only buy mascara and a little lip gloss.

I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.

I'm a product of a fragmented world.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing film production, extend interest-free loans to designated filmmakers, and have placed quotas not only on imports but on television time.

The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which means that you really have to put in a lot of work and effort in constantly designing the next sound that will move the culture forward.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

Here in America, people are very professional.

The reason why I wanted to be an actor was to understand different people and cultures.