Quotes About Culture

The Temple of Hip-Hop makes sure that we don't just approach hip-hop just through music or through rap. We approach the totality of hip-hop.

People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish - but to be a total Latin artist like myself, to be out in a field where there weren't any categories for Latinos... I felt good that I was maybe - I didn't know it at the time - but I felt good that I opened the door.

We currently live in a culture where outrage is a bit of a hobby for some people. If they're not outraged about something, they're totally bored.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

China is not going to become a liberal democracy; if it did, it would collapse. I do not believe you can impose on other countries standards which are alien and totally disconnected with their past.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

At the time it seemed like there was a loosening of culture, there was a counterculture, there was a radicalization. I think we totally misread what was really going on in the world, that somehow a small group of people could mobilize a larger group of people.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

He saw, for example, the younger generation responding to Madison Avenue with the same spleen his own had once reserved for Wall Street: and in American 'consumerism' discovered a similar tendency from the least to the most probable, from differentiation to sameness, from ordered individuality to a kind of chaos. He found himself, in short, restating Gibbs' prediction in social terms, and envisioned a heat-death for his culture in which ideas, like

WAFFLE HOUSE Two words that spelled oasis across the Southland.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

In our culture of multitasking, according to Professor Clifford Nass of Stanford University, "The neural circuits devoted to scanning, skimming, and multitasking are expanding and strengthening, while those used for reading and thinking deeply, with sustained concentration, are weakening or eroding."5

In our culture of multitasking, according to Professor Clifford Nass of Stanford University, "The neural circuits devoted to scanning, skimming, and multitasking are expanding and strengthening, while those used for reading and thinking deeply, with sustained concentration, are weakening or eroding.

We're constantly confronted with the lazy, the apathetic, the immoral, the indifferent, the irresponsible, and the disconnected—the signs of a decaying culture.

genius answers those questions audaciously and lavishly. She dares to imagine everything and anything as possible, and carries our culture to worlds that never were. You can do the same.

asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. "Of course it would." The cultural correlation is undeniable: we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed

We rely on geniuses to entertain us, educate us, lead us, and show us all what our species is capable of. We rely on geniuses to give us smart phones, electric cars, cures for diseases, social networking sites, sublime art, world-class food, and, indeed, the very fabric of our culture.

I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.