Quotes About Culture

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

I went to Philippines and I literally had the time of my life.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.