Quotes About Culture

In Spain, there's a lot more publicity.

Obviously, culturally, England's style of play is a lot more direct and physical. In Spain, they're a lot more patient, and they have the ball a lot more.

Representing Spain is very important.

Players from Holland and Scandinavia aren't divers, but those from Spain and Italy go down far too easily for my liking.

Having managed in Holland, Spain, and Germany, I had always hoped for the opportunity to manage in English football and be part of English culture.

In Spain, they're never direct, and that frustrates me.

I know from my Real Madrid team-mates Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira and my family in Andalucia that people look up to me in Spain.

I learned a lot in Spain.

If you play in France, Spain or Italy it is not the same football, especially when you play in England. Every game is very difficult.

I feel like flamenco is part of this Latin music culture. It's from Spain, but flamenco has always been connected to Latinoamerica.

When I was growing up, in this country, I would use the name Hillary and in Spain, I would use the name Hilaria.

When I watch the best in the world, I want to be like them. We all have a fascination, all of us, with Spain.

Spain's beautiful.

I'm sad to have left Spain because in my opinion LaLiga is an exceptional, unique and extraordinary league.

It wasn't until I moved to Spain that I actually got my first glimpse of the NBA. I'd watch this program called 'NBA Action,' which came on every week and showed clips from different games.

I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.

I spent a lot of my childhood in Spain. My nuclear family lives in Spain and has lived there for a long time.

Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.

One of the reasons I got really fat when I left home was because I thought rich people ate white bread and Spam. I also thought they could get processed meals, because we never did, so that was exciting.

Everyone eats all kinds of food in Kerala. Kerala is one of the states where life span is the highest; and lifespan is closely linked to food habits. In Kerala, people are generally non-vegetarians. If it was bad for health, life expectancy would not have been so good.

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.

Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.

The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.