Quotes About Culture

Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He's from the Philippines. He has songs inspired by his culture.

Tamil is almost like my mother tongue and for quite some time, I had been concentrating on Telugu.

I've mostly worked in Hindi and occasionally Gujarati, which is my mother tongue.

Being Scottish is something you have in your heart not something that comes off your tongue.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

There are more than thousand mother tongues spoken in our country. This is not just a number but a reason to be proud of.

In France, I'm not going to say the audience will laugh for nothing, but you could compare the response I get to the response Louis CK or Chris Rock would get if they go up in a club in Denver tonight.

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and living in New York, it didn't even strike me as a possibility that a place could really exist without tons of Jews.

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

I really really love Atlanta. There are tons of amazing artists.

Song of Ireland' struck a chord in Ireland. There are tons of Rabbitts there.

Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.

When I'm in Brazil, I'm not Brazilian at all; I am a gringo. And then when I'm in England, I'm not really English, but when I lived in Canada, I was considered too English. So I never really felt like I clicked somewhere or that I belonged to one place.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action before it's too late.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

Is it too late to institute a leap year and mandate that the holidays fall on regular, convenient dates - so that Id al-Fitr will come, say, in the spring and Id al-Adha in early summer?