Quotes About Cultural shift

called, in her era, the generation gap.

Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

C'est en cet instant de gloire que le raïs prononça l'arrêt de mort de l'Égypte cosmopolite et libérale.

I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And that was a weekly routine for my father. He was a proud black man, and that all sort of vanished as America began to export jobs.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.

The '80s were a lost decade.

I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.

Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment.

Voltaire had observed, history is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

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