Quotes About Culture

I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

The New York Public Library is a wonderful gem. I go there to get away from the bustle of the city. They have an incredible collection of menus from all over the city.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.

I like Public School and En Noir.

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

One of the effects Pixar University has on the culture is that it makes people less self-conscious about their work and gets them comfortable with being publicly reviewed.

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.

What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London.