Quotes About Culture

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!

You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.

My family is really proper.

I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it should have been acknowledged. It was already penetrating mass levels of culture and radio, and yet they wouldn't give it a proper category.

In the 1950s, when we went to Lord's, you had to sit down, and it was very prim and proper. It was only in the 1960s when we started to do well that West Indians started voicing their opinions.

I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my Hindi speaking friends, I'm getting better at the language.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

There are generations of people who don't know how to eat properly.

I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.

My mum won't speak to me unless I speak properly on the phone. I have to speak 'American' for work, so often the accent comes through when I'm not at work.

I'd love to master another language properly.

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'

The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.

Nikki is obsessed with France and its culture, so it made total sense to propose there.