Quotes About Culture

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

I don't want to make light of the importance of my musical upbringing, as you cannot avoid being influenced by the area you grow up, but I will say that Reykjavik's geography is very different from, say, New York, Paris, or Copenhagen. There's big skies. The buildings are low. The landscape is spread out.

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

I grew up in New York City, but the rest of the world was a very big part of my upbringing.

It's the upbringing at home. You can have education abroad, the best of things, but you can be a horrible human being.

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn't a part of my upbringing. I don't have anyone in the arts in my family. I wasn't brought up particularly cultured. It was always TV and film for me.

My upbringing saved me.

Being from the Middle East paired with my upbringing in the United States had pretty polarising effects on the way I perceive beauty.

There's a particular quality that those of us who live on the border share; we can switch from being Mexican to being American in an instant just by scanning our surroundings. Not everybody has this superpower; it takes a very specific kind of upbringing to instill a deep pride in two very different cultures.

I have acted in all four film industries in the South. I speak all four languages because of my upbringing in various cities.

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

My upbringing in Rampur has contributed a lot to what I am today.

I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by such surroundings.

I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

The rules changed for art around 1989. We were all loosed upon the canon to clip and paste and borrow and update. Only thing is, unless you were in New York or in a cultural studies program, that new paradigm probably wasn't going to sink in until the Internet arrived.

We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make money from their own efforts.

Startups need to focus on building a foundation for their company culture early, and then they need to revisit it often. Every time a hire is made, a feature is launched, a Facebook status is updated, a press interview is given, a round of financing is raised, or a meeting is held, culture should be part of the decision-making process.

I keep myself updated about films in other languages.