Quotes About Culture

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

I don't like the idea of 'trends' at all. If you follow trends, then everybody looks the same. The best shopping experiences are in local markets, especially in foreign cities.

Girls always make our music go. They set the trends. It starts with the ladies.

Food trends don't just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elemental as your daily cup of coffee. The way you have that coffee now is probably very different from the way you had it ten years ago, and it'll probably be very different in ten years. That has a huge impact, culturally and economically.

I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.

The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.

What I do know is rock and roll and metal never goes away, ever. It took the back seat in America in the '90s. In Japan and South America, it was still really big. I never followed trends, so I don't know the exact function of them.

I intend to explore emerging trends, not only in fashion but also in music and everything related to sports.

California starts a lot of trends.

Whether they're for good or bad, all trends in the United States start in California.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Style applies to a lifestyle. It's not about being told this is trendy, you must do it. Now people have more access than ever before.

Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.

As a comedian, I've always tried to bring in trendy issues.

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.