Quotes About Culture

I truly believe Accenture is a magnet for top talent in the new, not only because of the work we do for clients but because our culture supports employees who want to make a difference in the community where we live and work.

People need a space that they can go to make a conference or Skype call. It's important to create those spaces and create a company culture that supports those spaces.

Connecticut's arts community provides an incredible amount of good for our state and supports thousands of jobs.

When we represent all cultures with sensitivity and truth, we foster a society that supports all people.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.

I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.

We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.

I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'

I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

I feel like I was supposed to be born in the '90s. Everything from that era needs to come back.

Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.

We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.