Quotes About Culture

Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

Soccer is the main sport in Mexico; it's very important for the Mexican people. It's their passion - it's their religion - and Mexican football was always one of the best in the world.

The natural thing in Africa is to start playing soccer at 8 or 9. You go outside and you play like kids play basketball here, and you grow a feel for the game. In Africa, the kids start playing basketball at 16 or 17 or 18, and when they get an opportunity to come here, they have been playing for only one or two years.

Soccer has surpassed, in this country, hockey.

Basketball is huge in France, but not as big as soccer.

Soccer is the international language. If you bring a soccer ball with you to any other country, you can make friends instantly.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.

When I grew up, in the time of 'Look Back in Anger,' the theatre was very exciting, a place where you felt that social comment could lead to social change.

An affection for Hong Kong and a national identity are not mutually exclusive. We can let children learn more about Hong Kong's history, culture, politics, and social development, and at the same time, we must make them have their national identity.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.

The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.

Our immigration policy should not aim to forcibly change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada, as radical proponents of multiculturalism want.

As a 'parisien d'adoption,' I am only semicognizant of where I may fit at any given time into the French social fabric.