Quotes About Culture

I want to cement my own legacy and, most importantly, motivate the youth of India and make all of India proud.

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

I think it's important for everyone to understand that if you have a background and culture... to really use that as motivation to fuel the fire. It brings meaning to what you do. It's not just sports - whether it's in the classroom, in the office or whatever it may be - it just brings passion and excitement out when there's meaning behind it.

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

I'd love to motorcycle right across Russia.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

Motown was pop, Atlantic was R&B.

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.

We are all big Motown fans.

Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.

A computer study of the frequency of the word "duty" in British and American books showed its frequency had shrunk to one-third of its frequency in earlier times.124 Shame is another of the concepts that seems to have faded, as shameless behavior has flourished, and has even been celebrated as "liberation" in some quarters.

In understanding Black Africa, geography is more important than history. Fernand Braudel

For thousands of years, imperial conquests have been launched by Asians, Africans, and indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, as well as by Europeans.

In Winston Churchill's words: We owe London to Rome.34

Institutions, no less than persons, may need to be socialized.