Culture Quote by Debra Granik

“Generally speaking, Americans cussed, smoke, and drank, and the Shamys had it on good authority that a fair number of them used drugs. Americans…

— Mohja Kahf

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than…

— Mitt Romney

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

— George Carlin

I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that…

— Haroon Moghul

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what…

— Debra Granik

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived…

— Chelsea Clinton

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or…

— Mark Frost

We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank,…

— Madonna Ciccone

Today's culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing. It is…

— Helen Baxendale

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their…

— Steve Cosson