Quotes About Culture

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made Ringu, and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.