Quotes About Culture

There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

We scuba dived in the Red Sea, the Pacific and the Indian oceans. We lived in Bali and India.

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

Red hair stigmatizes you.

We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'

As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

Growing up, my favorite movies were 'Forrest Gump,' 'Shawshank Redemption,' 'Gladiator' - none of them really had Asian leading men.

In Holland, there's a song that goes, 'Redheads - they know how to kiss.' But that's obviously not a song I made. I don't know who made that song.

I'm kind of a closet redneck.

Once a redneck always a redneck.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

NASCAR - everybody thinks redneck, Confederate flags, racists. And I hate it. I hate it because I know NASCAR is so much more.

A black athlete being reduced to a savage is, sadly, nothing new.

Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

Rock seems a little bit redundant now because it really is what country is. It's the voice of America and rock 'n' roll used to be that.

My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life. As soon as I formed my first band, we played Jimmy Reed stuff. So it wasn't like I was a white kid who was learning the blues from B.B. King records.

We wanted the humor to come from the characters and their world - you go down there to escape the world up here for a while. So when the crew would write jokes that would refer to American TV or culture, I'd just eliminate them because it just seemed odd that SpongeBob would know about it.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

I always refer to Bharatanatyam as the 'now prevalent form of Bharatanatyam' in my interviews. The style changes from generation to generation.

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.