Cultural Differences Quotes - Page 2

• I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Cheating, Differences

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.46, Crown Archetype

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• Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

  Dream, Party, Future

  Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.82, Arktos

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• Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Differences, Filters, Might

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

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• I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

  Paul Weller

  Kids, Differences, Water

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.

  Paul Bloom

  Animal, Compassion, Differences

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Doors, Bridges

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• Cultural differences - they are definitely vast in some ways. But I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

  Valerie Cruz

  Country, Thinking, Views

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• I've always been asked the question, "What is it with Australian men?" It's weird because most of my friends here [in the United States] are American men. I think there's cultural differences. It's a really American thing to kind of wax your chest. As a man it's like, "Get rid of that unsightly hair!" In Australia it's like, "Mate, what are you doing? Why would you do that? Doesn't that hurt?" So there's a few little differences that keep us.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

  Julie Delpy

  Differences, Confusion, Add

  "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Art, Character, Differences

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• The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough in what we have termed culturally common stories. To some extent, the stories of a culture are observable by inspecting the vocabulary of that culture. Often entire stories are embodied in one very culture-specific word. The story words unique to a culture reveal cultural differences.

  Roger Schank

  Unique, Simple, Vocabulary

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• The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.

  Mekhi Phifer

  White, Differences, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If someone says that they have to 'tolerate' cultural differences and cultural groupings different from themselves then that may make it difficult, at the same time, to condemn unjust practices within those cultures.

  Alison Assiter

  Practice, Differences, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• This Administration [of Barack Obama] favors a pluralistic world and respects cultural differences, so it's wrong for the West and American elitists to judge how women are treated under Sharia. I'm going too long on all this, but I choke up on the President's legacy of reaching out to the Muslim world. It's an emotional thing.

  Joe Biden

  Emotional, Differences, Judging

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

  Dov Davidoff

  Opportunity, Class, Cities

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