Culture Quotes

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.