Quotes About Culture

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

I think it's interesting to know that being a geek isn't the negative thing that it used to be.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

We have to talk about the negativity, but we have to enjoy the beauty of what this country, culturally, has done.

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

When you're part of a society where you're constantly having to define your identity and sort of negotiate with what the mainstream culture thinks you are, you have less energy and time to figure out who you are when you go home at night.

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor was a really big hip-hop fan, so he taught me everything around hip-hop.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s in London, you start seeing the explosion of drum'n'bass and then the birth of U.K. garage and grime. I decided to focus a lot of my energies as an aspiring MC. It was a very natural way to express yourself as a kid from a certain kind of neighborhood.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

Iran is not in any sort of routine groupings. It's not an Arab country. It's not part of the Indian subcontinent. So it's in a neighborhood where it has some unique characteristics. We are a country which embraced Islam, learned Arabic, but didn't change its language or its culture... That's what keeps us unique.

All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.