Quotes About Culture

It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.

The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

It is always something special when you can talk with people from your country. It is always nice to hear advice in your own language.

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.

Going to Santa Fe is like going to Greece. It's not that special compared to other areas. The pinon pines are no different than pinon pines elsewhere. But there has been culture there longer than in most places, and you feel it.

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating - on special occasions - chicken or fish or mutton.

The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory.

While I appreciate what goes into making high-end Indian dishes, street food has a special place in my heart. Being raised in India, street food played an integral part in my life while growing up.

Italy has a special place in my heart.

London has always held a special place in my heart.

Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It's a club with a culture to try to do everything to help the team.

Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Globalization is very destructive to our species.

Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.

I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal.

If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.