Quotes About Culture

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

Trust me: I dont wish I was a New Zealander.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

A lot of people like to downgrade Morocco and Africa like its all jungles and lions and sh*t. The actual truth is a lot of stuff is going on out there.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic."

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.

Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.