Quotes About Culture

Oh, my dad listens to a lot of 2Pac, Ice Cube and WC. That's what he was listening to a lot when we were growing up. He's always been a fan of hip-hop.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

We have very good fish in Iceland.

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

I don't know whether it's a Nordic thing, but men in Iceland are very locked-up, very quiet. They hardly ever express emotion.

I would love to one day see the rock churches in Ethiopia and learn about the history of Rastafari in the country, as well as see the amazing landscapes of Iceland.

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

1984 is such an iconic, loaded year in so many ways.

I think back to the Eagles, Elton John, people like that when I think about the Troubadour. It's an iconic place.

I've heard a lot about the iconic buildings and all that Dubai has to offer and can't wait to experience it for myself.

I don't believe in icons.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

Children don't have anywhere to go except cinema halls, malls and restaurants. All three aren't ideal places for kids to grow up in.

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

I think that if companies build for diversity from the beginning from the ground up, that's definitely the ideal state for how to build diversity into your company.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

My dad has blond hair, my grandmother has blue eyes. My daughter has blue eyes and blond hair. So it is pretty funny to me that I'm so heavily identified as an Asian person.

I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.