Quotes About Culture

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.

We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

I have carried my Jamaican Flag with pride around the world to share my culture and experience with others because I seek Balance which is what I believe life is all about.

Life without literary studies is death.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.