Quotes About Culture

I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning and guilt. Almost an 'anti-ambition.'

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

My mom would always say, 'Hair is a woman's beauty.' I cut my hair all off. I was completely bald, and that was, like, 'What in the world?' My mom was like, 'What happened?' She had so many questions.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

Since the '60s, we've lived so much in an age of quick fixes that the culture itself has become a quick fix.

I like to just hear people talking and TV is a quick way to hear different periods and genres. It's just interesting to me. I'm pretty easily amused with that kind of stuff.

I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.

Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.

I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.

My mother didn't play being disrespectful to women. I was around grandmas and aunts. You learned pretty quick to be respectful!

The difference between Germany and Italy? I think in Serie A there is more quality and the game is quicker, but in Germany it's similar.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

I don't know who can constantly afford to go and see things. A play, which has five people in it and one set and it cost you 60 quid? And you're in a theatre that really hasn't had a great deal of money spent on it in the last 50 or 60 years? It's kind of weird.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

There's a lot of things I would definitely go to bat for in Hawaii. I've been all over that stuff. If someone told me to be quiet about that because of my profession, no. That's my people.