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Quotes About Culture

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
~ John Shelton Reed
Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.
~ Michael Leunig
I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.
~ Thalia
When I tell people in England my show is going on at midnight, they look at you like you're crazy.
~ Noel Edmonds
We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.
~ Angus Young
You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
~ Joe Lando
There are good people here in the Midwest. That's for sure.
~ Martin Brodeur
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'
~ Jehane Noujaim
I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.
~ Bill Goldberg
We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.
~ Jonathan Groff
I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.
~ Karyn Kusama
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
~ Jami Attenberg
I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.
~ Ellie Kemper
I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.
~ Emma Corrin
Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.
~ Ethan Coen
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.
~ Kyle MacLachlan
Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.
~ John Updike
On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
~ Brian Fallon
No matter where you live in the world, the contribution that Chinese migration has had on food culture is undeniable.
~ Melissa Leong
Mike Cernovich is not everything that's wrong with society, but he is definitely the low hanging fruit of what's wrong with society.
~ Sam Seder
I grew up in Milan during the golden age of designers. There was fashion all around.
~ Fabio Lanzoni
The DNA of AC Milan is something I have inside me.
~ Clarence Seedorf
Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.
~ Emilio Ambasz
For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you... Are we the same? Good lord, no! That's why Europe's fun - it's fun because it's different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same - it's ghastly.
~ Nigel Farage