Quotes About Culture

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

My people are Americans. My time is today.

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.