#culture

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#american #american cities #angeles #cities #consumption

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything. ↗

— Ian Rush

#different #different cultures #everything #food #got

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#because #big #counter #culture #different

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#available #beast #closest #cultures #earth

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#aspects #between #choice #comedy #culture

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cultures #each #know #more #other

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#church #cultures #definitely #different #go

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#boots #cowboy #cowboy hat #culture #embraced