Quotes About Culture

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

The American way of life is not negotiable.

I don't know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.

Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

My wife has a line of fine Indian foods, that's kind of a very successful business. It's an interesting way to see life.

They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.