Quotes About Culture

We realised that art, theatre, and music in Sarajevo were resistance at the deepest level.

As Culture Secretary, I realised how you can use sport to do so many other good things for society.

I realised that Delhiites have a very different style of talking, which is sweet, but only a Dilliwala can speak like that.

With 'Shallow Grave' people realised that you could set a film in Scotland and it didn't have to be about leaky boats in the Highlands. Then 'Trainspotting' made it fashionable.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

Social realism takes research.

I am a social realist writer.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

I have a real interest in working with younger Native artists. I think it's a very important way for Native people to communicate the realities of our culture and remember our ancestors.

I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time.

'Our thing' is turning into 'my thing' within the Mafia, just as the larger American society is facing the new realities of the 'me generation.'

I think what's happened to America, in a cultural sense, is we stopped getting richer as a country in the early 1970s, but we haven't adjusted our consumption patterns in any way, shape or form to meet the realities of the new lower income.

If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

The beehives from the '60s were gorgeous. The big hair from the '80s wasn't.

I think that some people still think that the formula other than gospel still is not strong enough to get that crossover appeal to people enough that they would play it all the time, or nonchurch people would accept it, but I disagree.

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.

We're trying to create content that is very culturally forward without compromising the push of the gospel.

I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.

I love gospel music, I love gangsta music.

For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.