Quotes About Culture

Growing up near Scarsdale, I should have had at least one Jewish girlfriend. Maybe at some point it'll happen.

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

I am a flea market junkie! Every city I go to, I'll be sure to look up when and where the biggest and best markets are nearby.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

Hoboken is a neat place.

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.

My mom is Asian and loves all of the throwaway parts of the animal, so she actually thanks me for saving her the neck and other parts.

I think we're at a really critical time in terms of art, and I think it's totally possible to have a project that is entertaining but also moving the cultural needle forward. I think it's one of the reasons I'm so grateful to work on 'Billions.'

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

I love Tamil, and needless to say, I love my state.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.