Quotes About Culture

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'

I'm very progressive in a lot of ways, but I'm a very proud American. It sounds so corny to say, but I am and have always been very... I'm just so proud. I don't ever not want to live in America.

Im going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I havent seen. Ive spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.

The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.