Quotes About Culture

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Growing up in the Sixties, whether it was the Batmobile or the costumes Porter Wagoner wore or the music that came from there, California was the home of what a friend of mine calls 'custom culture.' It seemed like the promised land.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.

There was a Burger King in Hamilton, N.Y., where Colgate is, that had three sizes: Small, Medium, and Liter. I would go in there and order a large. And they'd say, 'We don't have large; we have liters.' So they'd make us order liters of cola, which I found to be just anti-American.

The problem that people have is that they eat too large portion sizes. Italians have been eating pasta for hundreds and hundreds of years, and we've never been an obese nation. We do the pasta, the pizza, all the cheeses, but it all has to do with how much you eat.

I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.

I still feel like we're a skate brand - it doesn't mean we can't present our stuff well. It doesn't mean that when you come in, everything has to be messy.

I didn't go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock 'n roll kids, skateboard kids.

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

Even though skateboarding is considered a sport now and it is going to be in the Olympics for the first time, you always have to realize what got it there and what's going to always be important.

A lot of people dismiss what we do. They think, 'Well, it's skate, so it's got to be, like, big baggy pants, cap backwards, big chain'... They don't understand that just because skating is the culture we're working in, it doesn't mean that we can't make good things.

In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.

I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.