"Culture" Quotes . Top 35 Short Quotes About "Culture"

"Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Barriers #Music Is #Ultimate

"Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Soul #Ears #Barriers

"I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Thinking #Play #Playing Together

"I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Playing Together #Western #Together

"Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?"

--- A.S. King

#People #Expensive #Care

"Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over."

--- Aaron David Miller

#Reality #Accepting #Together

"What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves."

--- Aaron Kampman

#Selfishness #Reason #Tentacles

"I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely."

--- Aaron Levie

#Thinking #Bad Politics #People

"It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city."

--- Aaron McGruder

#Culture

"In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don't really look for that, and I don't expect to find it in any city."

--- Aaron McGruder

#Culture

"I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I went to Cuba was that artists are paid to be artists, and poets are paid to be poets, and musicians are paid to be musicians by the government. The government - and I'm not saying that the Cuban government's perfect - but the government does place a value on culture."

--- Aaron McGruder

#Values #Poet #Culture

"I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture."

--- Aaron McGruder

#Thinking #Culture #American Government

"Pretty much up until The West Wing, our leaders had always been portrayed in popular culture as either Machiavellian or dolts. But I thought, "What if we show a group of people who are highly competent, they're going to lose as much as they win, but we're going to understand that they wake up every morning wanting to do good?" That was really the spirit behind The West Wing."

--- Aaron Sorkin

#People #Leader #Culture

"There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture."

--- Aaron Swartz

#Unjust #Justice #Theft

"The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time."

--- Aaron Wildavsky

#Our Time #Remains #Political Culture

"The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#Great Joy #World #Outsiders

"The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#People #Feels #Culture

"Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#Culture #Indian #Indian Culture

"I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#Bradford #Humdrum #Planes

"Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing."

--- Ab-Soul

#Rap #Culture #Battle

"A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal."

--- Abba Eban

#Ideals #Justice #Social Justice

"In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Order #Culture #Universal

"Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Culture #Universal #Voice

"We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Culture #Produce #Links

"When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in the audience during the official screening in Cannes, I didn't feel that it was my film."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Feels #Different Cultures #Sitting

"I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Acknowledgment #Culture #Challenges

"As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Politician #Differences #Conflict

"I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West."

--- Abdallah II

#West #East And West #Culture

"We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them."

--- Abdul Kalam

#Way #Culture #Land

"Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam."

--- Abdurrahman Wahid

#Institutions #Wells #Culture

"My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English."

--- Abel Ferrara

#Grandfather #New York #My Grandfather

"'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present."

--- Aberjhani

#Youth #Appropriate #Lines

"The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary."

--- Aberjhani

#Visuals #Culture #Articulation

"Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days."

--- Abhishek Bachchan

#Celebrate #Goes On #Culture

"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

--- Abigail Adams

#Social Justice #Action #Diversity

35 "Culture" Quotes