Quotes About Culture

I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize...

I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.