Kenya Barris Quotes

The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

Kenya Barris

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• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Game

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • You
  • Culture
  • Concept

• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• 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.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Poetry

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Culture

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Culture
  • City

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  

  L.A. Reid
  • World
  • Music
  • Culture

• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Purpose

• I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Literature

• Culture is more important than politics and government.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Politics

• I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown away by the spirit of that country.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Amazing

• It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Great
  • True
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Know

• I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Amazing

• I think that, if there are topics that are just on people's minds, things manifest into reality out of the sort of global consciousness of being aware of those topics.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • People
  • Reality

• Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.

  

  Emmanuel Petit
  • Way
  • Play
  • Shows

• For years, my Chinese family supported me, but they wanted me to have an arranged marriage, so I ran away and worked as a waitress. It was a tiny salary, but I was so happy; it was the first time I'd accomplished something.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Time
  • Family
  • Happy

• Five wives can't all be wrong.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wrong
  • Five
  • Wives

• If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Different
  • Baseball

• The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Culture