Quotes About Culture

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'

I had to get to the point where I just had to embrace carrying the torch for the traditional girls out there. I love representing the traditional black woman.

We are teaching white children to hate themselves. We are teaching nonwhite children that it's OK to bully and torment white children because of the color of their skin.

Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

Toronto is my favourite city in the world.

In Toronto, the film festival is like a carnival... entire families come to it.

Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I'm on the side of the music.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

I like B.C. because it's so beautiful, but I think Toronto's the greatest place because every corner of the world is here.

Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.

Toronto is obviously Drake city.

A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

I was raised in Mimico, a small neighborhood just outside of Toronto, Canada. One of the most culturally diverse cities in the world.

Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other's TV.

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

Toronto's a delightful city.

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

Toronto girls are super interested in skincare, which is actually kind of unique. Because in New York, the girls seem to be mostly interested in makeup.

Toronto is like a smaller, safe New York.

There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them.

I'm from Toronto, so I listen to a lot of Toronto artists.