Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

We want American customs, habits, manners, dress, manufactures, modes of thought, modes of expression, and language. We should encourage national and even State peculiarities; for there are peculiarities and differences in the wants and situations of all people, that require provincial and national, not cosmopolitan, institutions and productions.

Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

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.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

The ministry of culture is nowhere, but cultural life is everywhere.