Quotes About Culture

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis.

In our culture the way women have been represented in American film had a pretty big impact on my self-esteem and I'm sure it did on a lot of other girls. I think they have a greater psychological impact that anybody's willing to talk about.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

For me, psychologically, I am very much an Indian.

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.

There is a psychology of Bombay.

Norway, for some reason, I find Norway really fascinating, you really feel nature in that country. And then there is somewhere like Japan, which is the most interesting culturally because their whole psychology, how they think is so different to us and how I've grown up.

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

Our culture is steeped in positive thinking - from the self-help mega-industry to college courses in positive psychology to the enduring pull of the American dream. There is no dislike button on Facebook. Nobody wants to be a downer.

Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.

I learned English in a pub. I didn't learn it in school.

Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren't that many of us.

Twerking - and it's a lot more than twerking - comes from a long history of music and dance in New Orleans. Twerkin' happen around the world for a long time now, so I'm very excited that it's coming into the public eye, as long as it's respected.