Quotes About Culture

I would say the hardest part in the Latino world is approval from your parents. It's such an intense thing.

I love English football. I love the way people live it so intensely.

I love English football because of its brilliant atmosphere, intensity of the competition and the culture of respect that fans and players have for the game.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.

Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact.

Growing up, I never known anybody in my family actually to interact with a person of color.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

Whether it was a shoe store or working the front desk of a hotel, I was always interacting with people. I'd get that look because I'm half-white and half-Filipino. They could tell I was something, but they really couldn't tell what I was.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

I am genuinely interested in China, I wanted to see it visually.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

Being a global citizen makes you a more interesting person.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

I love D.C. - people who have such cosmopolitan background, who are doing interesting things. It's a fraction of the size of Manhattan but the knowledge that people have is amazing.

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

I've always said that the more ethnic you become, the more international your film becomes.

Fashion is international.

Image is an international language.

I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.