Quotes About Culture

The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.

For a nation that spends a lot of time talking about the weather, we don't seem to realise just how much sunshine we actually get. Maybe that's because we tend to concentrate on the negative aspects.

Manchester is the same as Milan. The weather is the same, and you have two big clubs fighting against each other.

The different weather conditions make India the ideal tourist destination.

We are the most visited city in the world - and they're not coming for the weather. Culture is one of things that's made London hugely successful.

Australia has the British way of life - and great weather. I could live there.

Portugal is much like Brazil - the weather, the people, the food and the language is also a bonus.

I loved it at Barcelona. My three years there have been such a great experience - the city, the culture, the weather, the food and the friends I made.

Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.

I grew up just outside New York City in a very white town. In seventh grade, I got called Macy Gray. It really affected me, so I got a weave and wore my hair straight.

I'm a successful individual and maneuvering in a culture where there are some racists. I still find a way to get to the top, whether I go around or weave through.

For a global company, it is imperative to respect and honor local culture and weave that into the core company values rather than the other way around.

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.

Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.