Quotes About Culture

I wish I was in my 20s during the '90s to really fully live it. I feel like that was a pretty exciting time being from Chicago, seeing Jordan win six rings.

I love Jordan's like, where I'm from like the Jordan's, having Jordan's is like really part of the culture so this is really essential for me.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

My husband is a journalist as well, and while we love beaches, we can't sit for that long. If we go to a beach destination, there needs to be something else we can do there as well. I need to be around interesting and different people and cultures.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' but it's really not about crazy rich Asians. It's about Rachel Chu finding her identity and finding her self-worth through this journey back into her culture. Which, for me as a filmmaker, exploring my cultural identity is the scariest thing.

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.

Judaism is in all my books.

How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state?

As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

Just the little bit that I've learned about Judaism, I didn't realize how, dare I say, intense that religion is as far as all of the things that you have to know and remember and the ritualism of it.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.