When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.
We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.
