Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Graydon Carter

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Michael Leunig

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

William Irwin Thompson

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Yao Ming

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

Diablo Cody

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

John Cleese

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.

Eve

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

Fred Wilson

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Eric Allin Cornell

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Bill Griffith

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

Geert Hofstede

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Henry Louis Gates

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

John Oates

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

John Podhoretz

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Judah Friedlander

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Johan Huizinga

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

James Wolcott

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

Mark Pagel

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Arthur Erickson