Quotes About Culture

I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.

If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.

In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.

That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.

I was raised like a little soft French kid, if you want to know.

When I was playing with the Brooklyn Nets, we still called people soft, but we never equated it with being gay. It shows people are capable of changing language and culture.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

Beanbags and softball matches and a cool Twitter handle doesn't make young people want to work at your office.

Australian women tend to tell it like it is - even if it's the brutal, honest truth. I think American women usually break it to you a little easier. There's a softer side to them.

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of identity belongs to the soil, to the land, and isn't somehow within ourselves and among each other.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that growing things in a garden is no different to growing things in a field.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

In 'Losing My Cool,' I argue repeatedly that it is a terrible lie, which has been foisted on us and sold to us for decades now, that hip-hop culture equals black culture, that being authentically black means keeping it real.

I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.

When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.