Quotes About Culture

My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gypsies. But I like any kind of music as long as it's good music.

The culture of the Dominican Republic definitely influenced me. We enjoy music in this crazy way; we celebrate absolutely everything.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump and the American white working class.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

I believe my last name Hunt is an anglicized version of O'Fianna.

Male buerkitshi are certainly more common than females today, although eagle hunting has always been open to interested girls. Archaeology suggests that eagle huntresses were probably more common in ancient times.

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.

Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' - there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.

Our state ceremonies have a religious foundation. We have compulsory religious education. And the Church should be a moral guardian. We have in this country a long Christian heritage and Christian culture and we shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to give that up.

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.

In the South, you can't say you're hurting. You can't cry, so you lash out.

A movie should be made keeping in mind they are not hurting any religious sentiments.

In my family, I've seen women being devoted to their husbands. I grew up watching that. To me, it is a very natural thing.

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Entertainment is very close to religion in this country. If you buy the hype, it can be very dangerous.

American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.

Growing up in Finland, ice hockey was the main sport. But I never played that. I went with footy. I never had any other hobbies.

Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.