Quotes About Culture

If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around.

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians. For some reason, that time in history in our town in New York, everybody played. So it was all around me.

I grew up a few years after John Kelly in an identical neighborhood in the other side of Boston and I went to high school in John Kelly's neighborhood. I know the neighborhood John Kelly comes from, I know the culture.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid.

Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?

I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.

Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.

The Japanese style, they really do have concern for their neighbors kind of more than themselves.

Milkbars were not only a crucial part of Australian food culture for nearly half a century, but also influenced the way many of us connected with neighbours.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most likely be either biologists or music fans. Neither one has much reason to antagonize our armed forces.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.