Quotes About Culture

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

I love Paris, but it's not a city I would like to live in. It's one of my favorite cities but just in small doses.

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

Paris is a beautiful city.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible.

France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.

I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.

It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.

My mom loved fashion. We loved to travel and go to Italy and Paris.

Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.

The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die - and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days.

I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!