Quotes About Culture

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody actually knows what the narrative was.

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.

Particularly in China, I think a lot of people start to realise, OK, what are the things that they truly should value? That's something that fits perfectly well with what Volvo is offering.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.

When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are and how the filming of ourselves and thinking that we're interesting enough to care about is odd.

You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?

I've had fans coming up to me and speaking Chinese or Japanese. It's not a case of mistaken nationality. I just don't think they realise that we don't all speak the same language.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

I love the U.K., and I think a lot of people don't realise that I actually went to primary school in England.

I always felt that I wasn't as American as Americans and then I realised when I got back to the Philippines that I was not Filipino.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

I grew up in Delhi, where there are no Parsis. But once I came to Mumbai, I realised how quirky Parsis are.