Quotes About Culture

There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.

I think you got to keep in mind that Obama was raised among Muslims, and I think he really does not want to use the word war on terror because he was raised in that community.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as people want to talk about it because it is a matter of degrees.

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!

I love Italy so much, I want to change it in order to make sure it can be all that it can.

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that's why I married an Italian...!

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility.

I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.