Quotes About Culture

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.

We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican.

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important." "You

Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good gamester, and to pay in cash.

I hate the English--they are coarse, like every nation that swills beer.

the ladies of Italy have this advantage over those of France, that they are faithful even in their infidelity.