Quotes About Culture

The Philippines is unfortunately not a football country - basketball is more popular.

I remember performing one-man reenactments of Miss Saigon' for my grandmother on her fireplace or dancing to Gwen Stefani in our hotel in the Philippines.

I love the Philippines. I feel like it's a huge part of me. It's my home.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Well, I wasn't a big Chick-fil-A fan, I guess, I never really knew about them because I'm from Philly and they don't have them there.

Philly is old-school.

When people look at me, ask me, or say something to me, they know I'm Philly.

I made the mistake of going to a barber who was not from Philly, and let's just say, I would never do that again.

People in Philly are always late.

In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

Philly DJs sort of always won battles and always won awards and stuff like that and were always super sharp.

I do really love New York. I feel like there are more Asian restaurants. Philly has a sick food scene, I don't want to diss it at all. But New York is so much bigger and there are more options.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.

Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

I'm originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but I've fallen in love with London.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?