Cultural Neutrality Quotes

The liberal mind regards not what nation or climate it springs up in, nor what color or complexion the man is of.

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

Television from its inception had the number one goal to alienate as few people as possible. That's why if you look at 1950s, 1960s American sitcoms, the characters don't live any place in particular, religion is never discussed, politics is never discussed, you never really know what anyone's job is; nothing that could make these people seem different from you is ever discussed.

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.

What I always say is that money doesn't have colour. It doesn't matter whether you are from Africa or anywhere in the world. The colour of money is the same.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!

There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

I don't care if you're an Asian fan or an American fan: I'm happy to perform.

A pleased audience member is a pleased audience member, whether they're in New York or Mumbai.

I don't work any different in Japan than I do in the U.S. Some guys do, but if you're entertaining, you're entertaining, and if you're not, you're not, and that plays worldwide.

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.