Quotes About Culture

You would never see anyone go to a restaurant in Milan wearing a jumpsuit!

I grew up watching the great Milan teams with the Dutch players.

I've been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach.

'8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right? Growing up in Westport, for a long time I was the only black person living there for miles.

My dad loved jazz, so there was a little Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway. My mum is French, so she'd listen to a lot of French music, but a lot of the music that actually formed my taste, I just found online.

What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

At times I put in Meek Mill and listen to some R&B, some Merengue, Dominican music. I really listen to pretty much everything.

If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

Millennials are the experiences generation.

In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.

A lot of the language about Millennials is extremely gendered.

'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.

We are millennials, and we love complaining more than any other generation.

God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.'

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.