Cultural Competition Quotes

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples.

The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.

We always hope we can make a movie that will beat America.

'Smart Funny and Black' is basically a live black pop culture game show that I created. We have a live band. We have two contestants that we call 'blacksperts.' They come on stage and compete in games that I've created that test their knowledge of black culture, black history, and the black experience.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

It is possible, starting thus level with them, for the European to beat the Arabs at their own game, for we have stronger motives for our action and put more heart into it than they.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

It sounds funny, but I felt that my responsibility as an American actor was to let the British know we can act as well as they can.