Quotes About Culture

In more tangible terms, the pumpkin spice latte shares many of the qualities that endear conservative politicians to their supporters and arouse disgust in their opponents. It's blunt, common, and unapologetically American.

I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it's about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

Dutch food is terrible, I think. What sort of person starts the day with egg and cheese?

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.

You know, people come from cultures all around the world. Many of those cultures, you know, are not terribly successful. You can tell because you go to the countries and they're doing really poorly, and a lot of why they're doing poorly is because of the outlook, mind-set, and behavior of the people.

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.