Quotes About Culture

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.