Quotes About Cultural shift

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.

The America I love is slipping away.

I'm old enough to remember when 'Law and Order' was once the Republican campaign slogan.

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

The thing is, Finland is such a small country. It only has a population of five million, which is half of London. There's nothing there. I just had to get out. The U.K. is the perfect place to come.

We think we can play a small part in the evolution of culture.

I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.

Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era - he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer shorts and his sneakers were a different style.

The Reformation was a movement that broke the bubble that held the Middle Ages in place. . . . El Bosco painted his Garden on the threshold of this leap.

Electronic books are junk.

People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because of what's happening in the world.

I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry.

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.

Reversing consumerism's financial and cultural dominance in public and private life is set to be one of the twenty-first century's most gripping psychological dramas

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

Yet "change management," like "Scottish cuisine" and "man bun," is an oxymoron.

By the mid-1980s the health craze had swept the country, and the cocktail scene was all but dead.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

While only a small number of people wrestled with the philosophical problems that Schaeffer faced, by the 1960s the majority of young people wrestled with the question of authority.

That's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.

But this inglorious revolution wasn't for me. I didn't want a sex shop in every town.

Jim MacLaine was the hero of Ray Connolly's 1973 movie 'That'll Be the Day', about a young man turning his back on a university education at the turn of the '60s in order to try his hand in a rock n' roll band.

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.