Quotes About Culture

I love everything about this city, Philadelphia.

In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is really industrial. I love industrial cities. Everybody hates them, but I think they're the best places to be creative. The more gritty it is, the more I love it.

I want to hire guys that fit that mold; I want guys where it's about the Philadelphia Eagles first, that check their egos at the door.

When I was in college, the Roots, the sui generis ensemble from Philadelphia encompassing all manner of black music, played a show on campus.

Philadelphia is a football town. Boston is a baseball town.

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

It's hard to be a good philanthropist in China.

Parsee culture is definitely one of strong business acumen, high ethics, and an element of philanthropy.

Prince Philip is very intellectual. And Prince Charles is extremely well read.

I'm fascinated by the Philippines because I'm from here. I was born here. I'm a Filipino.

Darts is huge in the Philippines and Pacquiao is much bigger over there than David Beckham is here. I'm happy playing darts against him but I wouldn't want to box him.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

There is so much more to the Philippines than just Manila. The beauty is in the neighboring islands.

The Philippines consists of different beautiful islands, so my Filipino fans are as beautiful and passionate.

I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.

Both my parents were born in the Philippines. My dad is full Filipino, but my mom looks a little mixed, and her mom's name is Estelita Coquico.

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

Journey are very big in the Philippines.

I'm from the Philippines and I moved to this country when I was 16.

Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.