Quotes About Culture

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.

My dad has always been such a great dad, and he's brought so much culture to my life. He dragged me to see every single movie at the cinématheque as a kid. I saw everything from Star Wars to Bergman.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals