Quotes About Culture

I think about what I grew up seeing, what I didn't see growing up, and what it felt like when I did see someone who I thought that I could relate to, just living their life on screen.

You can't control where you are born, and when you're growing up, until you've seen something else, you're just living your life.

Being a big black man in China in the mainland, walking down the street, you have everyone looking at you, 'Basketball?' They don't really see a lot of us around, maybe on TV, so they're just looking.

Foreign managers, sometimes it'll take them time to adapt or for the players to adapt to them. It's something that is just one of those things in football.

I make music for the whole world, not just one borough.

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.

Even under Poch, he had a different culture to the British. It wasn't that he didn't understand it. You know the British like to have a drink, it was just something that he couldn't get his head around. He wasn't willing to compromise on that, either.

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Coffee in Italy and some places in Europe is great, but there's just something about Australian coffee.

I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

You can try to justify how Asian you are, but you're never going to make everybody happy.

When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Cities are about juxtaposition.

The juxtaposition of India and Australia is such a great one to explore.

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven't had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I'm told, I don't really need to.

Kansas City is truly an awesome town.

I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.