Quotes About Culture

I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'

The Miami Heat represent the city of Miami.

Miami has a big Argentinian, how you say, society, living here, so I meet them everywhere.

Oh I love Miami!

It's great to work with a group from Miami.

I'm just excited to be here in Miami and have an opportunity to be part of a great culture like this.

We all know what it means to be a Miami Heat player, the passion and the dedication it takes to be a part of this culture. And I always felt like if I ever got an opportunity to play here, then I would fit in perfect.

In Miami, you can walk in the street and see people. It's like Brazil.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.

Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

Michigan was the place that people used to move to from all around the world.

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.

San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world.

Florida is a great microcosm of the country.

Bollywood is a microcosm of society, it's no different from the world.

Microsoft's culture is very strong.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.

My middle class values are intact.

I came from a very middle class Maharashtrian family. It was a big step to get into movies. My family was shocked.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.