Quotes About Culture

Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

I wanna try being a waiter at restaurant or work to introduce Korea to other people!

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.