Quotes About Cultural shift

I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?

The landscape of daytime has changed. I'm not so sure people go to daytime TV for kumbaya moments anymore.

I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.

Sometime in the early to mid-'90s, 8 P.M. television went away from family to being 'Friends' - and you really don't want your 10-year-old watching 'Friends.'

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much.

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk.

It was the era when women were in the kitchen. Space travel was the old-boy network.

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Blacks abandoned morals, fathers, and real belief in God.

Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.

Morality in his country had been replaced by what was politically correct or incorrect.

For in those days it was rare to see a man and a woman, especially a wife and her husband, laughing together in the street. Now, of course, things are very different, and nobody laughs at you or makes faces behind your back if you happen to mention that you are quite fond of your wife. Personally, I blame the modern craze for philosophy and this so-called New Comedy we hear so much about.

Suddenly Paris fashion-that bellwether for the French mind-had to be à l'Amérique: tailors manufactured insurgent coats and lightning-conductor dresses (in honor of Ben Franklin, with two wires hanging to the ground).

back in the seventies, when women began to straddle chairs and dance crotch out on television, when all the magazines started featuring behinds and inner thighs as though that's all there is to a woman, well, I shut up altogether.

After Hiroshima, the musicians understood as early as anyone that Truman's bomb changed everything and only scat and bebop could say how.