Quotes About Culture

There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.

The mythos of superheroes is our mythos today. They are American myths. 'Captain America,' 'Iron Man,' 'Hulk' - these are the biggest movies in the world. But sometimes, superhero movies can be a little bit thin.

Unfortunately Bollywood goes ga-ga over thin not fit bodies.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.

When I walk on the street, I see people looking like me and not stick thin.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

It's core to Amazon's culture that we want to innovate and think big, and it's great to be at a place like that.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers, and novelists.

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

I want people in their 20s to think of 'Swing' the way a generation in the 1960s thought of 'Esquire' - as the voice of young thinkers.

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.

When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'

I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.