Quotes About Culture

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.

I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.

My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.

People don't want to read subtitles.

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

We are hearing more and more from our clients, they want to know how to build not only a great corporate culture, but effective cultures in each of their smaller teams.

Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.