Quotes About Culture

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

What's really good is African drum music.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.