Cultural Quotes

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project.

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.