Quotes About Culture

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

Nashville is a pretty small place.

I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.

For my first restaurant, I wanted to do something very special and close to my heart. Nashville felt like the place.

I can't really change Nashville.

Nashville has so many music fans and fans of music are also fans of NASCAR and just the atmosphere here throughout town gives you a good feel.

You don't meet too many actors in Nashville.

Nashville's been like my second home.

There's a particularly nasty element when lots of men get together sometimes.

Obviously I don't hate America. I do believe that we are becoming - and I can only judge it by my lifetime, 'cause I don't know what it was like in the 1800s - but it just seems that as a nation, we are becoming really, really nasty, and not concerned with any kind of truth.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

I feel unabashedly Indian, and this means that not just do I jump to my feet and sing along with the national anthem, it also makes me inexplicably sentimental, proud and teary-eyed.

I had so much backlash because, before in NXT, I used to come out with the Bulgarian national anthem. And people were like, 'Oh, why are you embarrassing the anthem?' How am I embarrassing the anthem? I'm from the freaking country.