Culture Quotes
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... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.
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I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
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What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.
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I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
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In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.
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North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.
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Culture is central to what makes us human.
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We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.
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There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service. … As we look beyond our differences in age, culture, and circumstance to nurture and serve one another, we will be filled with the pure love of Christ and the inspiration which leads us to know when and whom to serve.
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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
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For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.
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People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.
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My personal experience with companies in the PayPal ecosystem taught me that a superb engineering culture is indispensable to building a winning business.
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I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
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In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.
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It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that's happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
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We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.
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History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
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Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
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I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.
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I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.
