Quotes About Culture

Being an actor adjacent to the media industry, I pay attention to that landscape.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking about the health-care bill, talking about the minutiae.

As a cohort, millennials are unique in their social consciousness, and they make decisions based on that awareness. Keep them engaged at work by showcasing a culture of paying it forward and tying the day-to-day into the larger purpose of the organization.

The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.

My parents were in the Peace Corps.

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'

Fashion is definitely important. It's like peanut butter and jelly with hiphop music, you know what I'm saying? So, it's a part of you, a part of yourself as a person.

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a shoemaker. You speak differently to your mother, who comes from Burgundy, and to your father, who comes from Swabia.

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

To peel the curtain back, I don't know if I could do Curry Man the same way I did it in TNA and not be racially insensitive.