I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.
The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
You can't stop change. Don't let it stop you.
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
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.
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.
Oh, the humanity. . . . It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.
I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.
The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.
This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!
For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.
Sound words can't be understood through formal study of the language alone. They're felt when you immerse yourself in the culture or lifestyle that becomes a part of you. The Japanese language is abundant with onomatopoeia. Even though I've lived in Japan a long time, sound words are still an uncertain territory. And I think new words are being created every day. Even when I don't know a word I can sometimes connect it to a meaning using the sensations produced by the sounds, which feels like I'm playing with words.
