Quotes About Culture

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

Hey, you know something people? I'm not black But there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white

Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization — you can't just swallow it whole.

Socialism produces bad music, bad art, social stagnation and really unhappy people.

Swahili is a modified form of the Arabic sawa-hil, meaning 'coast people?

Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.

Sand: The French are all actors; but only the weakest among them act in the theater[

During these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished.

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West.

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

When I came from Europe, I was told that Americans don't care about soccer and this and that. But the way people cared was beyond my wildest expectations. You can't manufacture that.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

I am, always have been, and always will be proud of my Nigerian heritage.

As we celebrate a culture of giving, however, we must also sharpen the question of how extreme wealth generation happens in the first place. And we must recognize that just societies cannot be realized merely by the willful distribution of surplus wealth.

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.