People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.
It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment.
To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.
I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.
I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
