Quotes About Culture

I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.

People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. People would go crazy; they would lose their minds.

But when culture becomes a baggage, things don't work. What is good about anything that feels like a baggage? I think we should let go when it feels like a burden. Hold on to the things you love. Then it will be a natural process.

When I'm abroad, I burn all my money on Broadway.

At the end of the day, I am a Marwari. So I will always think of business like a Marwari!

It's disconcerting that there's been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there's an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.

In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down, just more degradation. Then we got into punk rock, and now we are into rap music, which is a total oxymoron.

For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Assimilation, not success, is the American end game.

Bayern are a club where success is demanded, and second place isn't particularly appreciated. We have a history and culture to respect.

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's the biggest bang for our buck. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In fact, the more you put in, the greater the successes for the U.K. economy.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Dad's fear, especially when I was 18, was that, in the music industry in the U.K., there wasn't really anybody I would aspire to who was of black origin and who was successful. It was mainly black American musicians in the charts and, at that age, I think you look for someone you can identify with, and there wasn't really anyone.

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language.

The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.