Quotes About Culture

Comparing Bollywood and Hollywood is like comparing America's market, roads and economy to ours.

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

There's always a way where we knock ourselves back down. It's the culture that we've been born into.

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.

There isn't just one black experience out here.

Eurocentric women are beautiful, but they are not the only ones out here that exist.

I shot 'Poppin' in L.A. because I love L.A. Because when I came out here, I fell in love with it.

I'm a conservative dude from the Midwest. I went crazy out here in LA.

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

In my opinion, Islam is an outdated religion. It's not modern. And therefore, there's too much space for violence.

I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

I am comfortable in all kinds of outfits. I prefer Indian wear, but there are days I step out in a short dress. It depends on my mood.

I would do Bollywood, but I don't know if I could do that - the dance, the singing, the kind of flirting with your eyes, the outfits.

Shopping in Mumbai is always an outing with friends.

The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.

The music industry needs a TV outlet for hip-hop fans and artists.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

I've been to every single Asian country apart from Myanmar, on work, listening to human interest stories, giving me a broad outlook on all Asian cultures.

I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook.

If you see culture, to my mind it is something you need to consciously have to create. It's not like a box, where you put some input and you will get some output. In my view, it begins with the mission, vision and values.