Quotes About Culture

If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.

Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.

When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.

Everything I do is about Chinese culture. My dishes have to symbolize something because they taste better when people understand.

I love making dishes that my mother used to make.

I really dislike elves.

As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.

I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world.

In India, public display of affection is frowned upon.

Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.

My problem is that we are all listening to music in a more disposable fashion.

Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.

I think people are interested in celebrities because it's easy, disposable entertainment and it's fun escapism.

Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.

Your plan is not as important as your culture. That means you will run into problems that will disrupt your plan and schedule, and how you deal with that depends on the culture you have created within your team.

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

You can't discuss Macau in any logical conversation. It will distort any reality.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.