Quotes About Culture

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.'

I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore can't write about it. By and large, if there's an Asian character, I might get a call. But if the character is called 'Philip,' the chances are I won't.

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.

We get letters a few times a year from people that write papers on the show. You know, like, 'Oh, my psychology or my cultural studies class - this is my term paper.' Somebody wrote it as their thesis, about the social experiment of the show, because the show is a reflection of what's going on in culture.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

I don't know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.

I've played all through the Middle East. The Arabs never say what they mean. They say what they think you want to hear.

We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.