Quotes About Culture

I grew up in Seattle.

My favourite city of all has to be Seattle as it seems to encapsulate everything that is great about both Britain and America.

People are nice in Seattle.

It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.

There are so many canceled games that people don't know about and so many stories people can't tell because they're restricted by this ridiculous culture of secrecy.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Apple is so secretive internally, they keep secrets from each other.

I come from a secular background.

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

Indian artists are working with a history that's overwhelming and rich.

The kind of love people in India shower on me is overwhelming.

I owe everything to France.

I owe everything to Punjabi cinema.

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

We really owe it to our world to infuse our entertainment with messaging.

Hindi commercial cinema has denigrated women. We owe a debt of ingratitude to Bollywood for having insidiously polluted our culture covertly.

The world's music is at our fingertips, so if we like music, we kind of owe it to ourselves to check in with all of that.

I mean Ireland, in all honesty I owe Ireland a lot because I think, and I'm not just saying this flippantly, Ireland is probably the reason that I do the job I do because when I started doing stand-up I came to Ireland and I just sort of gelled with the idea of doing it the way I do - telling stories.

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.